So 10 years after banning most guns and crime rates that have gone through the roof, England has decided that it now needs to ban civil rights, you know "it's for the children".
What England has done is:
Getting rid of trial by jury
Abolish the rule against double jeopardy
Confiscate the assets of criminals without trial
Complete Article http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,289279-412,00.shtml
Parts of the Article:
"There is a real crime problem in Britain," said Geoffrey Robertson, a trial lawyer. "London is more dangerous these days than New York."
Robertson, one of Britain's leading trial lawyers says the shocking crime statistics panicked Prime Minister Tony Blair's government into going for a quick fix.
"The quick-fix solution is always the populist one: Let's get rid of jury trials. Let's abolish the rule against double jeopardy. Let's confiscate the assets of criminals without trial," he said. "But this doesn't help to detect crime."
And all of this is happening in the country that gave America its basic concepts of justice. One of those legal rights that the government is now chipping away at, trial by jury, was guaranteed, on the banks of the river Thames at Runnymede, when King John signed the Magna Carta nearly 800 years ago.