{"id":281,"date":"2002-10-18T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-18T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tashuk.wordpress.com\/2002\/10\/18\/41\/"},"modified":"2002-10-18T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-18T10:24:00","slug":"41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/281","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

“In the terror trap” – What are we doing?<\/b><\/p>\n

A couple of quotes from Timothy Garton Ash article in the Guardian this thursday…… “In the terror trap” Think it very informative, and I commend it to you.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,3604,813115,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n

“We’ve given up far to many freedoms
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in order to be free”.<\/p>\n

John le Carre
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[a last epiphany of spymaster George Smiley]<\/p>\n

&<\/p>\n

“To make this choice is to accept a risk: more liberty, less security. But the balance in this case is clear.
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Erring on the other side, we would sacrifice too much liberty for too little added security. <\/p>\n

Put it like this: I would rather take a one in 10,000 chance of being blown up by a terrorist than a one in 10 chance of having my emails read by a spook”. <\/p>\n

Timothy Garton Ash
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Thursday October 17, 2002
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Guardian <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,3604,813115,00.html<\/a>
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“In the terror trap” – What are we doing? A couple of quotes from Timothy Garton Ash article in the Guardian this thursday…… “In the terror trap” Think it very informative, and I commend it to you. http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,3604,813115,00.html “We’ve given … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}