The Home Secretary is dead, long live the Home Secretary?

[denny]

"My first responsibility is to protect people. I don't regard their rights as absolute."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1400584,00.html

(yoinked from wechsler)

Comments

[zotz]

Rights aren't absolute.

[fellcat.livejournal.com]

True. Any right is dependant upon the responsibility of respecting that others have that same right.

[mejoff.livejournal.com]

hmm.
he seems to have added the words "-land security" to the end of his title without telling anyone.