BBC NEWS | UK | Prosecutor’s security state fears
But in his final speech, Sir Ken called for “level headedness” and restraint to uphold hard-won freedoms.
“We need to take very great care not to fall into a way of life in which freedom’s back is broken by the relentless pressure of a security state,” he said.
The former defence barrister said his period at the top of the Crown Prosecution Service CPS had been a “relentless prosecutorial struggle against terrorism”.
He warned against sweeping laws that could give the state “enormous powers” to access knowledge and information about ordinary people’s lives.
“We need to understand that it is in the nature of state power that decisions taken in the next few months and years about how the state may use these powers, and to what extent, are likely to be irreversible. They will be with us forever. And they will in turn will be built upon.
“So we should take very great care to imagine the world we are creating before we build it. We might end up living with something we can’t bear.”
This is a man who knows what he is talking about in terms of what is really going on case wise in terrorism. Surely he is worth listening to? What do we have to do to get the politicians to listen to the experts who are really dealing with this stuff?
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