the outcome of the election

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Again at what point do you DECIDE who is a "member" (of something that isn't even a real organisation, more like a common slogan) and may, thus, be held indefinitely? A human right ceases to exist the very moment that it is possibly to deny it to someone, on whatever grounds. That is, infuriating as it may be, the reason why the axe murderer arrested with the bloody axe in hand with 12 victims underfoot MUST have the right to a fair trial.

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Again, one cannot claim to fight for freedom, democracy and rule of law and try to defend these values from those that would attack them by eroding the very principles they are build upon. That way, Al Qaeda has already won.

19 young men with carpet kives cannot do damage to freedom, democracy or even a nation. They can only kill people, destroy buildings and cause fear.

All the REAL damage is done by the means that were supposedly justified by the ends.
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A person standing on a pile of corpses with a bloody axe is not an "axe murderer" until the media or a trial by jury names him so. It may be an open and shut case based on the evidence but the person arrested is innocent until proven guilty, or until the story breaks in the mass media.

And 19 men with boxcutters can do damage to our freedom, democracy, and nation. The terrorists attacked a target of economic and symbolic importance and the full extent of the damage from that attack may never be known. How we deal with the damage and take steps to ensure it does not happen again are problems we have been attempting to deal with for several years - and I see that continuing for years to come.