Eight weeks
So they’re going to change the law again, so that if some policeman doesn’t like the look of you, you can be locked away for more than the current month. Given that as yet no such suspect has had to be released after 28 days of questioning, it’s a little hard for them to come up with a justification.
The thing is, until they’re rounding up nice white middle-class people instead of shifty brown people with their peculiar rituals, who really gives a sod?
We’re all Ruth Turners and Lord Levys at the end of the day. As long as the police aren’t banging on our doors at dawn they can do what they like.
Posted on July 25th, 2007 at 10:56am under T.W.A.T., The home front
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“The thing is, until they’re rounding up nice white middle-class people instead of shifty brown people with their peculiar rituals, who really gives a sod?”
That’s it in a nutshell.
And the thing is both the police and their government masters are being cheered on in this phony ‘war on terror’ by the very same people.
There’s a covert agenda at work here. It requires a cowering, fearful population and that seems to be what we’re getting.
I’m waiting for our supine media to inquire into why it is that 28 days was deemed adequate throughout a REAL dirty war when ‘Irish terrorist’ managed to demolish Bishpsgate, the Centre of Manchester and part of Docklands, came close to killing the entire British Cabinet, mortared Downing Street, assasinated Airy Neeve and Lord Mountbatten etc etc. – Real committed professionals in other words, unlike the rank incompetent, disorganised amateurs directed by that ‘man in a cave’ that we are supposed to be facing now.
I won’t hold my breath though. Questioning HMG version of this phony war is simply a no-go area for them it seems
‘post-charge questioning’ is floated in the article Tim links to. I’d keep an eye on that one, it looks less scary but is seems no less open to abuse to me…
Niels.