Peter Farris Blogs
On the front page of The Age today was an article about QC Peter Farris who has come out in favour of torture. This is following the debate that was sparked after it became known that Professor Mirko Bagaric, and fellow Deakin law lecturer Julie Clarke are to publish an article advocating torture in extreme circumstances.
This debate has been more than adequately teased out in the mainstream press and the blogsphere so I won’t go into it here (except to assure you all that I oppose torture under all circumstances).
What I thought was noteworthy was that Peter Farris has a blog which is quite admirable for a QC – albeit a rightwing one. A quick skim of the links leaves no doubt about his conservative bias. It is also noteworthy that he’s got a poll running. You might like to vote according to your feelings on torture. When I voted ‘no’ at about 10 am this morning there was an overwhelming anti-torture vote.
