General Article A humane way to fight terrorism

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The Government has been getting it wrong on terrorism. It shouldn't have said that the 'rules of the game' were changing after the 2005 London bombings.

It shouldn't have bought into the grandiose concept of a 'war on terror', and it shouldn't have acted as if new laws were the answer to people armed with extremist views and home-made bombs.

This happens to be exactly what I believe, but interestingly enough these views were expressed just two weeks ago by the Government's Police and Security...

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