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The Abolition of Liberty: The Decline of Order and Justice in England
| | The Abolition of Liberty: The Decline of Order and Justice in England | | by Peter Hitchens | | | | The most important issue now facing this country is the threat to liberty from an increasingly mighty and arrogant state. I originally wrote this book to explain what had happened to the English criminal justice system, something I had not had time to do when I wrote its companion vcolume 'The Abolition of Britain'. | | But, as I examined the extraordinary changes in the law, the rules of evidence and police practice, I began to see that the decline in order was being used as a pretext to attack the freedom of the subject, by Home Secretaries of both major parties. This was serious enough. But combined with the alleged 'War Against Terror', another endless pretext and excuse for illiberal laws, surveillance of the innocent and attacks on such fundamentals as jury trial and Habeas Corpus, it has now become positively alarming. Most, though not all, of the reviews of 'A Brief History of Crime'(this book's original title) entirely missed the point of this book, concentrating instead on the issues of crime, guns or penal policy with which it also deals. I felt the subject was too important to be dismissed and ignored in this fashion. That is why I have removed two chapters ( discussing the death penalty and the gun question)and inserted a new chapter on the threat of Identity Cards. And it is why I have given this new version of the book a new title which in my view more accurately represents its meaning and purpose. | | Check prices at:
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