SIR – Liberty and Reprieve once again behave like petulant children, stamping their feet and walking away because they don’t get everything their way.

These groups are not representative of the majority, in fact they are very much only representative of the minority.

So why do they believe they have the right to demand so much openness from our security services?

I am only one of the millions of law-abiding people in this country who invest their trust in our security services to protect us from many of the very people Liberty seek to ascribe rights to, and to represent.

As an ordinary member of an allegedly democratic society, I am so often sickened by unrepresentative pressure groups such as Liberty, who ascribe the same so-called rights to those who make it their purpose to undermine and attack the rights of the law-abiding and the innocent, as they do to those who are not Islamic terrorists and illegal immigrants. Because of groups such as Liberty, the rights of the majority are superseded by the undeserved rights of minorities and individuals.

This injustice is made worse still when the minorities or individuals are criminals and terrorists.

Is it not time the voices of the majority took centre stage once again, and that any rightsbeyond the basics of shelter, food and medication have to be earned, if only by respect for and acceptance of the rights of the majority?

WILL RICHARDS
Malvern