Liberties Feel the Lash ; to Rival Margaret Thatcher's Handbag, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith Brandishes an Imaginary Whip, and Probably has a Pair of Long Boots to Go with It.

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To rival Margaret Thatcher's handbag, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith brandishes an imaginary whip, and probably has a pair of long boots to go with it.

Her record includes an obstinate effort to diminish yet another of our civil liberties, in the form of a 42-day period of detention without trial, and the determination - despite expert advice that it would be in contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights - to extradite to the United States the UFO-obsessed hacker who is suffering from Asperger's Syndrome.

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Liberties Feel the Lash ; to Rival Margaret Thatcher's Handbag, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith Brandishes an Imaginary Whip, and Probably has a Pair of Long Boots to Go with It.

As a matter of i...

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