Not all family members agree on all matters relating to terrorism in the process that they go through, but I can say with conviction that there is a consensus, and a majority feel that these proposed counterterrorist measures are more than appropriate.
In the past, there seems to have been an emphasis on the rights of the perpetrator, or the accused, or the “alleged terrorist”, but you know, there's nothing alleged about us as victims. We're real live victims, and we want the balance to be there. But we see that, if anything, there has been a tendency in the past to protect the rights of the terrorist or the alleged terrorist more than protecting the rights of our safety and security.
In my conversations with other family members, when I told them I was testifying on the anti-terrorist bill—and I testified at the beginning, when the bill was first introduced—they responded with, “Go, Maureen, go”: there was unanimous support for it.