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Originally Posted by Azure
Not the point. Harper is allowing the families some time alone, when the body first comes off the plane. Wouldn't you call that being civil?
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Its exactly the point. Harper is playing 'Big Brother'. Can you point out examples where the press hasn't been civil at a Repatriation ceremony?
Maybe people shouldn't be allowed to drive bacause there might be an accident.
I can understand trying to shield families in their time of grief, but I believe there is an added political agenda behind this - an attempt to curtail pictures of fallen soldiers coming home.
Personally, I support our mission in Afghanistan.
But I do not want to see politics being played at the expense of the rights of the press. These are the types of rights I think that should be re-established in Afghanistan; as Tim Goddard says it is rights like these his daughter was trying to protect.