Subject: Notable & Quotable (England)
Date: Published: 10/28/91 (23 lines)
Source:  Wall Street Journal.  Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    Notable & Quotable

    Deputy editor of the Telegraph Charles Moore writing in
 the Oct. 5 issue of The Spectator about a British law that
 would permit police to search a house they suspect of
 containing explosives, potentially including shotgun
 cartridges and fireworks:
    Suppose the Government decided that because the Chief
 Medical Officer said that AIDS was a nasty disease policemen
 should be free to call on people whom they reasonably suspect
 of being HIV positive and give them blood tests.  The police
 would reasonably suspect homosexuals.  Would that make such a
 law right?  Why is it right in this case, then?  One could
 argue that it is even more wrong.  Far fewer people are killed
 in Britain by shotguns than by anal intercourse.

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