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Should Civil Liberties Be Suspended During National Emergency?

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Trevor Coulombe 26/9/15 Should civil liberties be suspended during national emergency? In the UK citizens are given several different civil liberties: the right to life; freedom of expression; freedom of religion and conscience; freedom of movement; freedom of association; the right to protest; freedom from arbitrary arrest; freedom from torture; the right to fair trial; political rights and property rights. In looking at these civil liberties a paradox is presented. The paradox is that acts of terror thrive in the freedom of democracies. This is to say that when the people are given the freedom of association, expression and movement, this will condone acts of violence, designed to destabilise or destroy State structures. Detention of citizens

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