David Davis' Resignation and fight over civil liberty

[Ian Mason]

On 13 Jun 2008, at 14:38, Roland Perry wrote:

>  What I struggle to understand is why there needs to be a hard  
> deadline to "put up or shut up".

Why you struggle to understand is that you've never been in this  
position. Try to imagine having the whole apparatus of state hanging  
over your head. Possibly you can be hauled off to be interrogated at  
a moments notice, then possibly detained incommunicado for a long  
time. That's a lot of stress and you would, quite naturally, want it  
to go away. Moreover, it's precisely that kind of stress that leads  
people to make up confessions just to reach a definite ending.

Ian