Argus title : Hypocrite Hain must go back to his roots
Earlier this week, I watched as Peter Hain, Labour Leader of the Commons, ponderously defended proposed government legislation to introduce house arrest and other forms of punishment without trial.
Synthetically brown, smooth and well-fed, he delivered the government’s ‘line’ that if a terrorist outrage should occur, the electorate will be more concerned about whether it could have been averted than about civil liberties.
Hain was once a radical Young Liberal who led British protests against the Apartheid regime in South Africa. At that time, he was resolute in his condemnation of house arrest, banning orders and all the other means by which the South African government controlled people it considered terrorists or terrorist sympathisers. Continue reading