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Link: Window on the World: INQUEST condemnation.

Step by step we move toward a police state. Why would a government want an inquest into a suspicious death to be held in secret using government-nominated lawyers? Might it be, perhaps, that the suspicion in question falls on itself? These are powers no honest government should even consider asking for.

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    Dave Petterson

    Time for me to make a run for it while I am still innocent. Soon I will be guilty of the henious crimeof being overweight. Rubber stamped by an official at some office in Crewe.

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    No, the crime is to have a thought.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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