3 Quotes & Sayings By Tom Bingham

Tom Bingham is a writer, illustrator and publisher. He has worked as the publisher of the world's best-selling international action figures for more than 20 years. He is the author of the first two books in the Blazer and Jock series: Blazer and Jock: The Story of a Friendship and I Am Not a Crook: A True Story of the British Police Force, which he wrote with his son Luke Bingham. Tom Bingham is also one of the UK's most popular motivational speakers.

1
There are doubtless those who would wish to lock up all those who suspected of terrorist and other serious offences and, in the time-honored phrase, throw away the key. But a suspect is by definition a person whom no offence has been proved. Suspicions, even if reasonably entertained, may prove to be misplaced, as a series of tragic miscarriages of justice has demonstrated. Police officers and security officials can be wrong. It is a gross injustice to deprive of his liberty for significant periods a person who has committed no crime and does not intend to do so. No civilized country should willingly tolerate such injustices. Tom Bingham
2
A state which savagely represses or persecutes sections of its people cannot in my view be regarded as observing the rule of law, even if the transport of the persecuted minority to the concentration camp or the compulsory exposure of female children on the mountainside is the subject of detailed laws duly enacted and scrupulously observed. Tom Bingham