RE: Couldn't agree more. What winds me is the use of anti-terror legislation that creeps into regular use - the surveillance of that family over school places for example, whilst the measures that would restrict the terrorists rather than the rest of us are shied away from.</p> </p>
All well and good But 42 days is too ******* long. Miles too long. Arrest 'em, charge 'em and get 'em on trial, but questioning 'em for 42 days is ridiculous. I'd admit to absolutely anything if I was questioned for 42 days.
RE: All well and good I've never said 42 days was right. The security services don't even think it's necessary. It's posturing and if it's made law, just wait and see how long it is before a fuel protester for example is detained using this legislation.
it's a crazy law I think most people agree that 42 day's is way too long but if I was arrested for terrosism i'd keep dangling them little bits that keep them interested in me. After 28 days i'd keep the feckers asking me questions for another 14 at three grand a day
RE: All well and good Now why would a bunch of ex-Stalinist politicians wan't to increase the length of detention? *drums fingers* Their economic policies might have changed but the authoritarian control freakery has not.
RE: Just bought a ton of fertilizer The ridiculous thing is that anyone can make a bomb dangerous enough to kill or cause damage without going through the effort of trying to smuggle it on a plane and detonate it. As the IRA did, walk into the middle of London/Leeds/Birmingham/Bradford on a Saturday afternoon and detonate it in a shop or packed city centre arcade. No need to worry about security, no need to worry about baggage scanners or sniffer dogs. Yet the fact it has yet to happen should say at least something about the level of the threat.
RE: it's a crazy law The thing is they'd have you dangling by the little bits, not the other way around.
except they'd never arrest me for terrorism i'm white, have an english name, am christian and never been to asia (that i'm aware of). I couldn't possibly want to blow anything up.