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To what extent is the restriction of civil liberties an acceptable price to pay for the War against Terrorism?
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To what extent is the restriction of civil liberties an acceptable price to pay for the War against Terrorism? Throughout the postwar era, civil liberties have enjoyed an unimpeachable position in the hearts of the Western Liberals. Legal and political theorists present civil liberties as the source of human freedom and self-fulfilment, and the ultimate bulwark against a totalitarian state. They point to the atrocities of Nazi Germany as symptomatic of the infringement of these liberties, and the political collapse of Soviet Russia as demonstrative of such infringement's self-defeatism. In this light, it is unsurprising that governments' reaction to the War against Terrorism has attracted such fervent and influential criticism. Yet behind such censure lies a dangerous fallacy, the exposure of which reveals how misdirected such rhetoric is. The central thesis of the civil liberties lobby is that the War against Terrorism has resulted in a restriction...
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