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The Assault on Liberty - What Went Wrong with Rights (Paperback)
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The Assault on Liberty - What Went Wrong with Rights (Paperback)
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An urgent and necessary polemic on the government's assault on our
fundamental freedoms and the proliferation of Human Rights. From 42
days detention to ASBOs, as citizens of modern Britain we are
seeing some of our fundamental freedoms being pawned off cheaply in
the name of security. At the same time, a whole range of novel, and
comparatively trivial, rights are being handed out like sweets.
Why? In the last 10 years the government has launched an
unprecedented assault on our civil liberties. The loss of basic
liberties has been replaced by a litany of new rights and the
emergence of a new rights culture without any meaningful democratic
oversight. This assault, and the parallel proliferation of rights,
has warped the moral compass that guided the idea of fundamental
rights throughout British history. But in whose name and to what
end? In The Assault on Liberty, a radical polemic on the state of
the nation, Dominic Raab, Chief of Staff to the Shadow Home
Secretary, asks whether we can really defend our freedom by
sacrificing it. The risks to Britain are real and likely to grow
unless unchecked. Raab argues that the long-term risk is that the
current approach will undermine the credibility of, and public
support for, the very idea of fundamental rights in this country.
He concludes that it is only a modern Bill of Rights that would
offer a precious opportunity to review and repair our approach to
rights, one of the pillars of our liberal democracy and would place
these fundamental liberties in the correct context of the
challenges facing Britain and its citizens in the 21st century.
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