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- Nov 07, 2020
Detain Quotes
Words on detention, arrest, and the limits of authority.
This collection gathers detain quotes that move from everyday authority to the sober debate over anti-terrorism law, including how officials use powers like the UK's Schedule 7 to question people at borders. Voices here also examine the age-old question of who really has the arrest power in a free society.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain has a Terrorism Act, which has within it a portion called Schedule 7, which is quite unique. What it is is it gives officials the ability to detain people at the border as they go in or out or even transit through the country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nation has invested millions of dollars in building safe, humane and, I may say, air-conditioned facilities to detain and prosecute the detainees at Guantanamo.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone.
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- Nov 07, 2020