David Davis' Resignation and fight over civil liberty

[Roland Perry]

In article 
<86537DBE-7CDD-4C25-B44E-55EE285F6693@sourcetagged.ian.co.uk>, Ian Mason 
<ukcrypto@sourcetagged.ian.co.uk> writes
>
>On 13 Jun 2008, at 14:38, Roland Perry wrote:
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>>  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.

That's a problem that many people share when discussing public policy in 
a vacuum :(

>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.

But I don't really follow that part. If they let you out because some 
28|42 day dealine expires and they haven't yet unearthed the proof they 
think is lurking there, you aren't in any sense off the hook (unless you 
have a plan to leave the country). Whether you believe yourself to be 
innocent (and unlucky so far) or guilty (but lucky so far) there's still 
the prospect of re-arrest at any time.
-- 
Roland Perry