People by nature are trusting of their state's authority and this trust is often abused. The UK government sanctioned and helped finance war in Iraq, in public's name and with public's purse. Other than obvious, one of major casualties of coalition was UN. Castrating one organisation in a position to challenge any state with sinister ambitions was either a stupendous oversight or stroke of genius. Now any state can decide to act beyond instruction of its UN peers and refer to past coalition action in its defence. Rejecting democratic process on one hand, coalition is happy to preach freedom and democracy to Arab States, Russia, North Korea and China.

The public's response to Prevention of Terrorism Bill earlier in year met with limited interest. Prevention of Terrorism Bill in its original form amounted to a suspension of habeas corpus, right to a trial, which has been frozen only a handful of times since it was enshrined in English law in 1679. On one occasion when terrorist suspects were imprisoned without trial, innocent were deprived of their freedom, while terrorists were given a huge boost to recruitment. In Northern Ireland in early 1970s, policy turned out to be a failure. See Darkening of a nation