42 days detention without Charge

Did you hear it?

Can you hear that wonderful sound? the sound of yet another Human Right dissoppearing into the meglomaniac hands of Gordon Brown and his Party. Does anyone remember where we’ve seen bill put forward that remove human rights in the idea of National Security before? Somewhere back in the mists of time? A small place called Germany. Remember that?

I can’t help but feel that we are slowly loosing our lives. Like if we don’t start speaking up it’s going to be the Muslims to stop them from being extreeme….

Perhaps I’m just being Paranoid.

The uproar that accompanied this bill in Parliment caused some members to yell that the members of the DUP that finall swung the vote had been “bought” with promises of more money for Northern Ireland, and for not trying to relax the laws on Abortion in Northern Ireland.

Seriously, though, how much good is it going to do? All we’re going to succeed in doing is locking up a few people without charge and if they weren’t already angry at the U.K. they will be 42 days later. If the police can’t find enough evidence to actually bring them to trail, or to proove that they need to hold them for longer then perhaps that’s because there’s nothing there to find. The idea that we will be sorry is, frankly, horsehockey.

We didn’t need this kind of Law when we were actually being bombed on a regular basis by the IRA. If it is necessary now, where’s the proof? This culture of fear that the Government wants us to live in doesn’t appear to come with the equivelent worry that living during the times of the IRA did. Those were scary times. There were legitimate fears of bombs because they actually went off. They actually did manage to kill people. They were no different from these “sucide bombers” appart from the fact they were intelligent enough to work out that if you don’t blow up the people who can make the bombs in the first place, then you can make more and more successfull bomb attacks.

The whole thing annoys me on two levels. I dislike the idea that we are afraid of idiots. Yes they are idiots with bombs, but overall they are idiots who are going to end up blowing themselfs up. They are never going to know if it does bring about change, they are never going to know that it’s not going to make a difference.

The second point is that we are currently running scared. What happend to the idea that we were not going to give into terrorists. The idea that we were strong as a nation and they were not going to terrify us. The most galling thing about all this is that these bunce of idiots are succeeding. The Goverment is Running Scared. They are, inshort, being terrified by the terrorists.

Don’t they realise that if this keeps up, with all the rights that we are loosing, we might as well give the terrorists what they want because their extreeme society will still be more free than what the government wants for us?

The suprising thing that has come out of this is that I’ve found myself being impressed with a Tory. A normally Die-Hard Liberal Democrat (not because I think that they are likely to be any better, or worse, but if they made it into opposition it would scare the bejeusus out of the other two pompus parties), I found that the resignation of the Shadow Home Secretary Davis Davis in order to force a by-election on this issue is actually admirable. I was actually impressed. Not quite enough yet to vote for them, but they do seem to be making the right noises about this and ID cards.

What do you think it’s going to take to get this Maniac out of our Governement? What we need right now is an Election, before he instigates Emergency Powers, and makes himself Fuhrer.

Black Xanthus

Footnote I am aware that the bombings in London killed people. My point is that during the time the IRA was active there was a lot more to be physically afraid of. Perhaps, of course, the reason that there is nothing actually going off is because the measures are actually working, but then, if they current mesures are working, what’s the justification for increasing them? I really must remember to re-read my billious outpourings before publishing them.

Thanks to Rosslyn for pointing out my Error

BX