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I'm a lawyer and I'm quietly terrified by arrest and detention without charge and by the call for identity cards in my home country. We are forgetting our consitutional heritage, paid for in blood, if we let this happen. It seems that only our foreign guests know the true value of not being stopped by the police with the risk of arrest at every street corner. Strangely only they know what it means to be truly "British".
Unfortunately, sueing the police in every case where there is no charge or prosecution is no safeguard, nor can it work in many cases.
The police have been given the powers they have and they can make as many mistakes as they like, provided that they are honest and reasonable. To even think about bringing a claim, one has to show negligence, absence of reasonable concuct or malice.
If the allegation involves terrorism, the presumption must be that the police take action rather than risk lives. That means that if they are given information from a source who may be acting out of malice him or herself, it will be easy to persuade a court that they had to do something rather than risk lives of "innocent" people ( i.e anyone other than the suspect).
The only real safeguard both from terrorism and tyrany is accurate information. If it's not good enough to bring charges, there should be no arrests and no detentions.
Habeus corpus is not just a quaint piece of ancient history.
Unfortunately it is even worse than that. A recent Court of Appeal decision in relation to the Enhanced Disclosure of Criminal Records procedure, held that an arrest where charges were subsequently dropped might be disclosed to a potential employer.
So merely being an object of suspicion may now be held against you for future reference.
what is the proceedure at the crb, when an employer enquires.....do they reveal the offence on record or do they just acknowledge that there is some type of record.
i presume that anyone can request information...
Wait (and pray it never happens) for the day that you come home from school or work or Tesco, and find loved ones or members of your family are not there. Not because they getting the once over in a nice warm cell for a couple of days, instead they have been blown to pieces by a fool with a grievance. Not only will you never see them again, but your whole life will change and will suffer because of it.
Families and civilians killed or ripped apart are never more than collateral
damage to governments and activists. People will generally pay homage over a few moments silence, yet surviving families and/or their
dependants become burdens and are quickly forgotten. Considered as ducks by the
terrorists. Britain, and the world over, has become complacent. Sick fanatics
are on every street corner, and in the news similar events occur almost daily. Buzz words quickly describe these paranoid minority groups, either
racial, religious, or class. They feel they?re persecuted while causing terror
and political unrest. Our laws become changed or subdued to accommodate them.
?All animals are equal George Orwell? said. But in truth those who shout loudest
still get what they want.
People of Britain and the world over, are told that assaults on other countries
are actually part of a war against terrorism? Well let?s hope so, but will it
stop there? But with the the ?open door? mass immigration for all, inc' extremists and
fanatics, the British Govt?s experience and dealings with the ira and the other
terrorists past and present, it would be sensible to wait until we?re all dead
and buried before similar comments. They could then be believable.
But in the scheme of things it hardly matters does it. Terrorists get what they want, people die.
It is human nature after all. It is what people are. Terrible as it is, some of
us have to face it and do all we can to accept and deal with it.
We could smash it head on. We could build walls and use tanks, and even hide from it.
But but choose to ignore, forget or defend it and we lose. The people, who do this, are still people whatever you or I might feel. They?re given their ?rights and their freedoms?.
They might stand up to be counted, or they might cower and hide amongst the
innocent, cloak themselves in good deeds or prayer and plead for compensation
their rights or fair play. That is the real danger, and which is the real
challenge. The war without guns or bombs. A politician?s war. But with so much emphasis on rights and political correctness, that feeling again that 'we?ve' lost.
Perhaps terrorists know the meaning of loss or pain, but there are equally so many
who aren't terrorists that DO.
If you had any, ANY understanding at all, you would know why, if in uncertainty or error, it meant I personally would spend the rest of my life in a box, without rights, to make sure just one terrorist scum stayed locked up out of
harms way, to save you or your family, I would be content.
I guess you wouldnt?
"Sick fanatics are on every street corner"
Not on my street corner.
"But with the the ?open door? mass immigration for all"
There are plenty of things wrong with the Home Office's handling of immigration issues, but accusing them of having an "open door" policy is simply not true.
"But choose to ignore, forget or defend it and we lose"
We only lose if we try to fight terrorism with terrorist or totalitarian police state methods, thereby doing their job for them.
"If you had any, ANY understanding at all, you would know why, if in uncertainty or error, it meant I personally would spend the rest of my life in a box, without rights, to make sure just one terrorist scum stayed locked up out of
harms way, to save you or your family, I would be content.
I guess you wouldnt?"
The end does *not* justify the means.
Many people in the UK have, over the years, fought and given their lives in order to prevent the establishment of the sort of totalitarian police state which you seem to envisage.
There are worse things than a swift death such as a life of repression and torture, which is what you say that you would be willing to accept.
Your grief for lost relatives is exactly the mechanism which fuels terrorist recruitment if they are made into martyrs for their misguided causes.
It is always more likely that members of the same family , clan, tribe or ethnic group will join such extremists, if their family has suffered from police harrassment, unfair judicial proceedings or "collateral damage" affecting innocent bystanders or just friends, associates and relatives of terrorist suspects.
Your statement might make some sense if the "one terrorist scum" that you are willing to throw your life away for was actually the individual who had personally killed a member of your family, then the ancient "selfish gene" familial feelings which fuel the tradition of vendetta and revenge would be understandable.
However, you seem to be saying that you are willing to accept this waste of your life even for a so called terrorist, perhaps denounced by a totalitarian government abroad, perhaps through the use of torture, and perhaps actually innocent but in jail simply because of a human typing error or some "false positive" thrown up by a nonsensical automated computer profiling system.
That is just not acceptable to me, or, I suspect, to the vast majority of people in the UK.
borders language culture..........
protect all three.....
I got arrested last year as a terrorist and would welcome thoughts and suggestions
I was released without charge my email is barbicanquestion@yahoo.co.uk
I wellcome all enquiries and will respond to EVERYBODY the press wwerent informed which i believe is iresponcible and thoughtless I would imagine that this would have helped people evacuate however .I was arrested coming out of tube like David .Merry and roads were sealed police were investigated and they claimed I may have been shoplifter It is not an expiernce I wish anybody to go through very scarry
I got arrested last year my email is barbicanquestion@yahoo.co.uk
I wellcome all enquiries and will respond to EVERYBODY .I was arrested coming out of tube like David .Merry and roads were sealed police were investigated and they claimed I may have been shoplifter It is not an expiernce I wish anybody to go through very scarry
heres my email barbicanenquiry2@yahoo.com
I was arrested like david merry in london under pta acts I will answer all emails all!!!