Charles Clarke isn’t quite as bad as Blunkett – but he’s getting there rapidly. ‘Indirect incitement to terrorism’? Sounds like something Mao or Stalin would’ve written into law. Of course, Clarke will claim it’ll only be used against certain well-defined groups of people. And of course, within three months of being passed it’ll be used against a trio of students or something. Just as current Anti-Terror laws passed post-911 were used three months later to arrest peaceful students outside an arms fair. And current US extradition laws designed to fight terrorism are used in over half of cases to extradite those accused of false accounting and other white-collar crimes.
Just as the Iraquagmire passed some kind of ‘tipping point’ on Monday – it’s no longer a containable situation, and is now certain to become a civil war – 7/07 killed off any chance of real freedom of speech or right to privacy remaining in the UK. Some of us tried, but… we’re doomed.
edward
July 20, 2005
You should have known that when they banned sub-three inch pocket knives that lock.