3 APRIL 2004, Page 29

Pseudo-liberal justice

From David M. Benda Sir: That the likes of Peter °borne should see a moral equivalence between the assassination of a vile terrorist and the killing of innocent civilians in a suicide attack no longer shocks (Politics, 27 March). His on par view of these two events is a mere geographical extension of the pseudo-liberal premise that corrodes our criminal justice system — a principle that the majority of listeners to a recent Radio Four programme voted to rectify, only to be derided for daring to challenge the pseudo-liberal dimwits, and was then ignored. The criminal enjoys the full protection of the law even when he is pursuing his evil act. When it comes to reckoning, his motives no longer matter; only what may have engendered his behaviour does.

David M. Benda

Stanstead, Suffolk