Comment on Government rushes to patch up laws for stripping terrorists of citizenship
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 11 months agoI don’t understand why terrorists even need to be trialled in secret - what’s the government’s stated excuse? That we decided its just not worth properly funding our legal system to ensue a prompt trial and protect the rule of law?
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Going off memory so someone please correct me but I think it was introduced by Howard and the excuse was national security, naturally. More specifically to keep secret any sensitive evidence that could compromise national security. I guess there is just no other solution to that other than to throw rule of law in the bin 🤷
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah - that definitely feels like a Howard post-911 destroy civil liberties kind of thing. I do think it’s something we were doing before that, but it ramped up to an industrial scale under Howard.