The IFJ maintained that due to territorial dispute, Kashmir had been in the throes of intense militarization and arbitrary use of
draconian laws since the 1990s.
The IFJ maintained that due to the territorial dispute, Kashmir had been in the throes of intense militarisation and arbitrary use of
draconian laws since the 1990s.
Draconian laws are antithetical to modern democracy since they overturn the fundamental tenets of modern jurisprudence on which democracy rests, viz.
We have been fighting against these
draconian laws and this time also we are up against it.
We need a common-sense approach to these
draconian laws we have landed ourselves with.
JUST before the anti-smoking frenzy reaches its zenith with the imposition of
draconian laws to suppress the use of tobacco in its most popular form, may I point out one of its benefits?
Because sexual offenders tend to be viewed as the most objectionable type of criminal offender and are assumed by many to be untreatable and more likely to recidivate,
draconian laws restricting their movement and behavior have been passed--some for example banning them from hurricane shelters.
We are in a war no one voted for,
draconian laws are taking away our civil liberties, sleaze, corruption and incompetence grow all around us and we have an arrogant leader who refuses to say when he will go and participate in a clear and transparent hand-over of power.
Mr Blair uses "terrorists", unnamed and very vaguely identified, resulting in hurried
draconian laws in both cases.
The importance of measures being pushed through cannot be exaggerated -
draconian laws, which will affect civil liberties and human rights for generations, are being introduced, contrary to principles previously considered essential to preserve our freedoms, and they risk making the problem of terrorism even worse.
Campaigners are concerned that the security crisis created by this month's terror attacks in the US will lead to
draconian laws being passed which infringe civil liberties.
Even as the Reagan-Bush administration promised to minimize the scope and size of the federal government, it waged a gratuitous, invasive, multi-front campaign against pleasure-seeking: It reinvigorated the War on Drugs, pushing through grotesquely
draconian laws that have helped create a national drug-gulag system the envy of every two-bit dictatorship.
