Hugh Hewitt has a good post about the UK crack down on terror sympathizers announced yesterday. He wonders if the US would be able to export its won terror advocates in a similar way to that which Blair is proposing. The Guardian describes these plans as "The most sweeping anti-terrorism proposals since the Second World War"

Perhaps the most interesting part of the news that I read is that Blair is considering altering the UK's bill of Human Rights to accommodate this if judges get squeamish about sending people who want to harm us to parts of the world where they themselves might be harmed.

Perhaps we are finally realizing that we cant base our morality purely on a "rights" approach. The biblical way is instead to base our morality on responsibility. What business do we have in tolerating in our country those who openly advocate violence against it and call for its destruction in public.

Blair really is getting tough, and I think the vast majority of people will simply say "About time too!" Blair apparently surprised many government officials who would normally have been consulted with his announcement which showed great boldness and determination. I fear for our country when he retires as I am not too sure that other politicians alive at the moment in the UK would have the leadership that our current situation demands. These words of Blair alone make me wish he would consider carrying on past the next election:

"Let no one be in any doubt, the rules of the game are changing.......Coming to Britain is not a right and, even when people have come here, staying here carries with it a duty. That duty is to share and support the values that sustain the British way of life. Those who break that duty and try and incite or engage in violence against our country or our people have no place here."