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“The most insidious danger presented to democracy by terrorism occurs when democracies self-harm in response, by trying to deliver themselves security by the deeply misguided means of tampering with their own civil liberties. They do it in order to make the job of the security services easier, by assuming greater powers for holding people in detention for longer, increasing surveillance of the whole population from its bank accounts to its library borrowing habits, limiting free speech, giving each individual a number plate (in the form of an ID card) so that he or she can be tracked and traced everywhere, and more. These harms to the fabric of a free society have longer effects, and in the long run worse effects, than terrorists’ bombs. Yes, security is important, but not at the cost of doing the terrorists’ work for them by damaging the fabric of our own society.” A C Grayling
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