Fred Foy from DPCS Associates wrote on Saturday, March 27, 2004:
> I must resist the implications of your leading question however,
> I do believe our European data protection colleagues, the French,
> would tell us that their system of justice (social order) tends
> to put the onus onto the individual to prove innocence.
Surely most people regard European harmonisation as a good thing? If it were
not, why did so many of them vote in a Government committed to abolishing
the British system of justice in favour of the continental system?
However, the tide is beginning to turn. British people are now starting to
wakeup to what is happening. They are saying "Thirty years ago we voted to
join a free trade system, a common market, not a European superstate."
Many good things have come about as a direct result of working together with
our partners in Europe - data protection being one obvious example - however
the steady pace of integration now seems to have turned into a torrent of
bureaucratic regulation that threatens to sweep away British culture,
including our systems of government and justice that have evolved over
hundreds of years.
I fear we are turning into an electronic society where an increasingly
powerful state holds all the cards. If the state no longer has to prove
guilt 'beyond reasonable doubt' in order to take away a person's freedom,
that will be a very sad day indeed.
--
Graham Smith
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