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November 10, 2005
Whither Britain?
Melanie Phillips on the voting down in Britian of the initiative to keep suspected terrorists in prison for 90 days, at police urging.We now have the astonishing political situation in Britain where a Labour Prime Minister represents the country’s overwhelming desire for appropriate laws to protect itself, and as a result loses his authority in Parliament as a result of an alliance between the left of the Labour party and the Conservatives on the grounds that measures to prevent atrocities amount to a 'police state'. What on earth are the Conservatives for if they can’t even defend the country’s security because they now line up with the left in assuming that the police are a conspiracy against personal freedom, and refuse to acknowledge the implications of the changed nature of the terrorist threat? The Tories have now lined up with those claiming fatuously that the 90-day provision would have introduced ‘internment’ or a ‘police state’.Thus does Britain now describe sensible provisions to defend itself.
During the debate today in the Commons, a member of the Loyal Opposition shouted at the Prime Minister, "Are we to live in a police state?" Blair was nonplussed and visibly shaken. His anger could barely be controlled. There we were: a member of the House repeating the refrain of every media outlet in Britain that – despite July 7th – Britain risks becoming a ‘police state’ or a ‘fascist state like the USA’ if we crack down on home-grown terrorists. Instead, we must wheel out every permutation of Islamic spokesperson to tell us how evil our culture is and how Britain has become a lapdog to Washington Zionist neocons. We must, they shout, not listen to the police and security services but let terrorists go back out onto the streets after twenty-eight days in custody.
Alcibiades | 11/10/05 at 11:44 PM | Categories: - Across the Pond
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Did you read BoJo's thoroughly contemptible op-ed on this in the Telegraph?
Between this stuff and their embrace of the all-principles-repudiating Cameron, the Tories look worse than hopeless.
someone | November 15, 2005 11:58 AM
Interesting spin in the articles you quote. I am one of the apparent minority who disagreed with the 90 day rule. This has nothing whatsoever to do with asking Islamic spokesmen to tell us anything. It has to do with a request for 90 days based on nothing rather than extensions based upon judicial rulings on evidence already gathered. I worry about what the future might hold when perhaps less scrupulous politicans hold power.
The quote: 'appropriate laws to protect itself' is Melanie Phillips opinion. I might suggest that others who hold that opinion might have balked 20 years ago if Margaret Thatcher had tried to introduce a similar rule.
Just my opinion.
Kav | November 16, 2005 10:29 AM
