Blair playing to "tabloid agenda" in terror fight

The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust:

"The key to successfully combating terrorism lies in winning the trust and cooperation of the Muslim communities in the UK. However, the government’s counter terrorism legislation and rhetorical stance are between them creating serious losses in human rights and criminal justice protections…they are having a disproportionate effect on the Muslim communities in the UK and so are prejudicing the ability of the government and security forces to gain the very trust and cooperation from individuals in those communities that they require to combat terrorism.”

At virtually the same time, 90 days detention without charge is back on the agenda, thanks to Gordon Brown and Sir Ian Blair.

The Terrorism Act 2000 brought into law provisions enabling you to be held without charge for seven days. In 2003, this was increased to 14, and this year it went up to 28.

In times gone by, getting arrested was a big deal. Not something that the state could do while they built up a case against you. Arrests came on the basis of real suspicion and a body of evidence. I can't understand the argument that detention without charge is necessary in order to gather evidence against a suspect - how can you arrest someone if you haven't gathered evidence against them?

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[joe90]

Tough on Tony Blair!
Tough on the causes of Tony Blair!

Fancy that, who would have guessed, Tony Blair and the British Government are telling lies about people, again!

http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1163691368.html>UK survey at odds with Government over terror
(cribbed from MediaLens.org messegeboard))

So, according actual reality -

ie scientifically based surveys and polls of actual real people

- British people who happen to be Muslim aren't extremists, fundamentalists, radicalised, etc etc
It's just that they don't like radical western fundamentalist jihadi war criminals, like Bush and Blair, committing their race-hate western war crimes against innocent, defenceless people just because their victims happen to live abroad -

ie spending £6.5 billion of British taxpayers money in order to slaughter between 6,250,000 - 9,000,000 Iraqis (and still counting!)

ie helping Israel slaughter defenceless innocent Lebanese and Palestinians

Despite western government and media propaganda, it sounds to me as if British Muslim folk feel exactly the same way as the rest of us do -
- its MI5, George Blair and Tony Bush and their supporters like Raving Madman proprietor of 'The Scum' sick-joke book, who are the radical extremists amongst us.