Former head of Cobra, Colonel Kemp calls for internment.

Guess I believe in human rights

I respect that you'll disagree and I understand why as a liberal, but I think you're possibly being too legalistic at the expense of human rights.

I'm fully aware that sounds like a complete contradiction, but there's a threshold from where adherence to the principle obstructs it from being upheld. The circumstances don't seem to offer another solution.

Britain isn't going to become a human rights violating tyranny overnight. There would certainly be individuals temporarily affected, in pursuit of what most people would judge as the greater moral option. If I happened to be an innocent holiday maker to those parts of Syria that are secure - I wouldn't exactly hold it against the government when they decided to intern me. That situation is intelligibly fair beyond the parameters of legalism.

In terms of a policy like this fomenting more radicalism? At this stage we're dealing with totally irrational evil. If somebody couldn't recognise that the country was acting reasonably to protect the interest of its citizens I'd question their perspective to say the least.

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