We also need to be far more effective in preventing British and other foreigners from getting out there…We need to make it crystal clear that you will be arrested if you go out to Syria or Iraq without a good reason. At present the police are finding it very difficult to stop people from simply flying out via Germany, crossing the border, doing their ghastly jihadi tourism, and coming back. The police can and do interview the returnees, but it is hard to press charges without evidence. The law needs a swift and minor change so that there is a “rebuttable presumption” that all those visiting war areas without notifying the authorities have done so for a terrorist purpose.
There's more Australians fighting for terrorist organizations than any other nation.
Also, Britain has a constitution? Serious question.
I don't see why you can't just blacklist certain conflict areas for travel, and only allow professional journalists to go.
Like most jurists, I much prefer a codified one as it's generally accepted to be generally better, clearer and to provide more stability, security and safeguards for the people's rights.
I'm not familiar enough with UK politics to know exactly what parties take what stance on certain legal issues. Libdems advocate introducing a codified constitution?
At first glance it really looks bad, but can you think of a reason why you would go to syria at the moment?Or why it would be a reason that you can't tell the authorities first?Or do we wait until these shitheads come back home and start more bombings?
dat slippery slopeA person can have multiple reasons to travel. Major one being is that it's their business to do so and not the business of anybody else, especially the government. What proof does a person have that some guy wanting to travel is a terrorist? There is none and all this shows is the government trying to restrict a person's free will and pass laws based on flawless concept to appealing towards emotion in order to better their retarded objectives
Slippery slope =/= hundreds of british citizens becoming battle hardened islamic militant psychopaths and then returning home when the war in syria is over.Mhm, I'd rather that these fuckers all died over there but some will inevitably slip through the net. Presumption of guilt is a dangerous concept, no doubt about that. But when it's easily dispelled by registering/informing customs of your intent then it's not a big deal.If you are going to be all secretive about why you want to travel to a warzone, then it's just down right suspicious and the government would be failing in their duty to protect the citizens of their country if they simply let people go there willy nilly.It's not 'muh infringement of rights' when they introduce quarantine/scanners at airports for people who have visited a country with an ebola epidemic going on, it's common fucking sense.
Kinder/10
Why are you even trying still? Nobody cares about your shit-tier bait anymore. Just give it a rest already.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin FranklinThe actions of a few individuals doesn't represent the whole and it's fucking scary that some group of people think they have power to tell others where they can and can't travel to. People talk about how certain things is fear mongering yet these actions is what REAL fear mongering is; it's brain washing people into thinking that somebody wanting to keep things private is automatically a suspicious terrorist. It's no different than the thinking that people who oppose the NSA are suspicious. People have a natural right to privacy and it needs to be respectedDon't compare this to disease. That's just stupid. ANYBODY can get sick bit not anybody can be a terrorist
Well, Boris Johnson just destroyed our constitution in one swift blow
