So this is 'terrorism'

Radford Mann Thu May 22, 2008 at 03:46:12 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

With the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary apparently determined to push ahead with plans to increase the period a 'suspect' can be held without charge to 42 days, perhaps it's timely to look at how the authorities are using the present legislation.



This is, apprently, reasonable use of the Terrorism Act. Many people, not just those who work in universities, will be concerned at this turn of events. Furthermore, it seems clear that the Act is being used routinely to prevent or discourage legitimate, democratic protest. While it may be the case that a small number of the Queen's subjects wish to blow up other subjects, the present legislation is out of all proportion to the actual threat. We risk doing to ourselves what the extremists want - removing and restricting our basic liberties such that we may become, in effect, an unfree people. Resist the 42 day proposal, scrap the Terrorism Act and start to base policy on the foundations of liberty and rationality.


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Re: So this is 'terrorism' (#1)

by David Boothroyd on Fri May 23, 2008 at 02:24:11 PM GMT

The government is responsible for the legislation but it isn't responsible for the cackhanded use of it by individual police officers who make a mistake. There clearly is a need for police to have the ability to investigate people who are distributing leaflets which attempt to recruit to terrorist groups.

The Terrorism Act 2000 is not being used to stifle legitimate protest.


Re: So this is 'terrorism' (#2)

by FreedomAndTruth on Sat May 24, 2008 at 02:07:15 AM GMT

I'm surprised the administrators allowed this post.

When I voice my real concerns about Labour they get deleted.

The Terrorism Act has been used for all sorts of police action against innocent British citizens.

Labour is following orders from the globalists to install a police state and get us into a federal European control grid. No wonder they did the dirty and denied us a referendum.

They have engineered British society so that our Judeo-Christian, patriotic, hard-working people have largely become dumbed-down, lazy, apathetic and thoughtless, i.e. unwilling and unable to defend their families or their country or half the time, even unable to discern that what is happening in plain sight is very bad indeed.

Instead, television, football and celebrity gossip infest their minds.

A land not built on coal, steel and shipbuilding, but being destroyed by drink, drugs and benefit dependency.

And of course complacency and dangerous and debilitating ignorance.

The Terrorism Act helps the Government to have the police enabled to arrest any citizen it deems a threat to its rule.

When the public hears that the person was arrested under the Terrorism Act, they have been programmed to feel better that another "terrorist" has been removed from the scene.

They don't care if the people were arrested for non-crimes like demonstrating or taking holiday photos.


Re: So this is 'terrorism' (#3)

by jkitleft on Sat May 24, 2008 at 01:56:57 PM GMT

Perhaps your posts are getting deleted because they seem to be a parody of the right.


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