Thursday, February 26, 2004

The Katharine Gun Affair

Interesting bit on Crooked Timber on how it was fear or losing the case that made the prosecution drop their case. Unsurprisingly, pro-hunting Euro-sceptic site Samizdata doesn't seem to think that it raises any questions about the relationship between liberty and national security worth mentioning, instead peddling this kind of insight, "[the] enduring genius of our very own Joan of Arc, political saviour, and English heroine, Margaret Hilda, the Baroness Thatcher?...Baroness Thatcher. We truly are not worthy.".