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And people think that would make a difference?
In criminal cases, if the CPS say jump, the judges always ask "how high?" It has always been like that, and always will be.
Internment is a great recruiting tool for terrorists. They go and support the family, hang around with the family, encourage the family to hate the people who treated their own so badly. The family will want revenge, and they will be persuaded that revenge is a dish best served with 300lbs of explosives on a tube train.
Except of course they hadnt managed to make ricin, and even if they had they were going to smear it on car doors and about the place randomly, a tactic which may have made a few people vaguely ill.
The police fulfil a political role, whatever you like to think.
They have disgraced themselves more than usual, labelled those who voted against the bill 'traitors'.......
I haven't seen any opinion polls on this I would have assumed that it would be unpopular but they implied on Newsnight that people were generally in favour which I find hard to beleive.......
I'd make it 90 years. Along with its twat of a husband.
It depends how you ask the question, a lot of the polls were things like;
Do you want the Police to stop terrorists?
- Yes
- No I love bombings
who posted that yes, prime minister thing about polling?
it's true here
The Labour backbenchers will soon lose their spines again and we'll have some other mishmash of hurriedly drafted legislation forced on us.
The cheek of the man defies belief. After losing a vote yesterday, and what little authority he had left, Tony Blair, of all people, has said there was a "worrying gap between parts of Parliament and the reality of the terrorist threat and public opinion". In other words, accusing MPs of being out of touch.Well, that's what he says.
That's a bit rich coming from Blair, isn't it? When he talked about "public opinion", was he referring to the public at large or just the rubbish that The Scum newspaper published this morning? I detect the hand of Rupert Murdoch here.
That's kinda what I was thinking - it's like selling you car.
you want £1,000 for it - so ask the buyer for £1,200 and they make a counter offer which is lower.
I think the real question show have been, are our British Intelligence and Police so bad at their jobs that they actually need 90 days to sort themselves out - imagine if someone got detained for 3 months and really was a terrorist - the people he has to work with would have a good 3 months to plan some new kind of attack ..
Instead of asking for more time the government should be investing in resources to help the police do their job better and faster. Espacially to help avoid killing more innocent people like they did with that guy on the underground
Teaghan, that is a jolly good point ... !
It is a jolly good point btw
Doh!!!!!
Hehehehe ... that's cos my e-mail is spelt 'teaghan' cos 'teagan' was unavailable ... and I got confused ...
Anyway, I'm really chuffed that you bothered reading my post to even notice the mistake!!!! YAY!
He didn't care much for public opinion back in 2003 when he illegally bombed Iraq against the wishes of just about everyone did he? :mad:
Did I say they didn't? However, there political role is at a higher level than acting as cheerleaders for the Labour Party.
Oh no,that really was in our interest. I mean, think if Saddam has used his WMD's on the UK! If he launched them at us!
Oh wait. Even if he didn't destory them, an al-Husayn missile cannot reach the UK.
Let's face it - Labour cares little about the public. Tony didn't lose much, although the lack of support should be a message too him - its now 28 days, that is still a minor victory, and a definatle loss on our part.