Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2015 8:20:13 GMT -6
Now the title is prickly, and I don't mean to suggest our nation has no values. Far from it, for it has values. It just doesn't hold them universally anymore. Whole segments of the population are almost at the point of fighting over just what that word means, and nowhere more than where authority meets people power, in the public square.
It sounds as though Kenya recently did as we had in the beginning, and after truly devastating violence for the public to absorb. They passed some rather draconian anti-terrorism laws. Unlike the US, Kenya seems to have wasted no time in reviewing those new laws vs their values, and their national set of them as much as anything.
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It can be funny sometimes, how history and things work out. A nation which existed a good part of it's modern life as a colony to Britain and subjects to the Monarch in London would be where we could find a lesson I think our side may benefit a great deal from.
Limiting rights and freedoms on the pretext of fighting terrorism isn't fighting anything..but surrendering what was worth fighting for in the first place.
It sounds as though Kenya recently did as we had in the beginning, and after truly devastating violence for the public to absorb. They passed some rather draconian anti-terrorism laws. Unlike the US, Kenya seems to have wasted no time in reviewing those new laws vs their values, and their national set of them as much as anything.
One of the eight suspended clauses calls for three-year jail terms or fines of $56,000 for journalists whose reports are deemed to have undermined police investigations.
"We cannot limit the freedoms and inalienable rights in the pretext of fighting terrorism, which must be done in the confines of the law," said High Court Judge George Odunga.
"We cannot limit the freedoms and inalienable rights in the pretext of fighting terrorism, which must be done in the confines of the law," said High Court Judge George Odunga.
It can be funny sometimes, how history and things work out. A nation which existed a good part of it's modern life as a colony to Britain and subjects to the Monarch in London would be where we could find a lesson I think our side may benefit a great deal from.
Limiting rights and freedoms on the pretext of fighting terrorism isn't fighting anything..but surrendering what was worth fighting for in the first place.
