poodle's insanity now completely clear

Blair has lost touch with reality... he's forgotten that "the presumption of innocence" is an indispensible protection for "the law-abiding citizen". and one big reason it is needed is to protect them from abuses of government power.

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TONY Blair yesterday threatened to impose "summary justice" on people accused of offences including terrorism, organised crime and neighbourhood yobbery.
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Mr Blair identified terrorism, brutal, violent, organised crime and antisocial behaviour as "new types of crime" that require new rules.

"You can't do it by the rules of the game we have at the moment, you just can't," he told a Downing Street press conference.
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Going beyond that proposal, Mr Blair suggested that police could get more powers to impose fines on suspected offenders, or expel people accused of drug crimes from public rented housing. Only after the penalty had been imposed would the accused have the right to mount a legal appeal to prove their innocence.

"Now that is summary justice," Mr Blair told journalists in Downing Street. "It is tough and it is hard, but in my judgment it is the only way to deal with it, and that comes first."

Hinting at a shift away from the presumption of innocence as the foundation of the legal code, Mr Blair said: "You have got to put the ability to protect the law-abiding citizen at the centre of it."
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