Criminal due process and open justice is set aside in favour of suspicion, security service "assessment" and secret hearings.
The nationwide agitation that the Webbs organized in favour of social security was only quelled in 1911 by Lloyd George's hasty improvisation of a scheme of contributory insurance.
Describing them as "stolen raw data", the judgment said that the balance of public interest was "plainly in favour of national security" rather than press freedom.
But it has to be struck so rarely against openness and in favour of national security, and only on such narrowly defined grounds, that it does not jeopardise public confidence.
Tony Blair, envoy of the Middle East quartet, was attacked by Palestinian officials for being biased in favour of Israeli security needs and seeming "to advocate an apartheid-like approach to dealing with the occupied West Bank", the Palestine papers reveal.
There are also worries that if CFAA were to be weakened in favour of the security industry, criminal hackers would simply claim in their defence they were carrying out research.
Among the more seductive arguments in favour of delegating security or peace-keeping to a private company is that a well-regulated mercenary force might be better disciplined and more respectful of human rights than some government armies – as well it might.
Though there is a political consensus in favour of a security alliance with Russia, Mr Khadzhimba's opposition does not wish to allow Russians to buy Abkhazian property or to see Sukhumi integrate too closely within Russia.
You can guess that in any society there are those who are driven by the idea of possibility and are happy to take risks, whereas there are others who favour the prospect of security.
