28 Is A Good Number ­ Articles ­ the bombsite

This week we heard about the English couple and their Australian friend who went on a sailing trip in their new catamaran and were arrested by Iranian security as they were about to dock in an island harbour.

According to the Englishman, talking to a radio reporter after their release, they were well treated and, indeed, during their second week of captivity, were confined in a luxurious, 5 star hotel. Their confinement was kept quiet whilst the British Foreign Office negotiated their release with the Iranian Foreign Office but since the news became public there has been all sorts of bad-mouthing about keeping people confined like this.

That’s a little odd because the current anti-terrorism law here allows for detention without charge of up to 14 days and this week our so-called government has been pushing for 3 months. With parole taken into account, that’s the equivalent of a 6 month prison sentence for absolutely no reason at all. In a prison as well which is a very long way from a 5 star hotel.

So why should 3 months be OK here but 2 weeks is way to long when it’s applied by other countries to our own citizens? I think it may well be the old racism coming into play again. The anti-terrorism laws are, of course, for terrorists, but at this moment in time those terrorists are likely to be brown and Muslim rather than white and Christian. (I don’t mean the term “brown” to be in any way denigrating.) I wonder how many white Muslims are going to get picked on? I wonder how many brown Christians are going to get picked on?

I suspect the vast majority of those who get confined under these laws are going to be brown and Muslim and the rest will just be brown. So what about the Irish terrorists out there, and the Welsh separatist terrorists and those terrorist pricks who hide behind so-called animal rights? So that’s a big, fat zero then.

In the mean time the government were defeated and an amendment was passed to raise the limit to 28 days. For myself I think that is long enough to be detained without charge. If the police and security forces can’t come up with any proof in 4 weeks there probably isn’t any. Of course the police are moaning about how long it takes to check this and that. Well pull your fucking fingers out then! Maybe if they raised the intelligence level for new recruits we could get a better service. They probably haven’t thought of that. Too clever for them. And let us not forget that this isn’t just down to the police, there are other security forces as well. I think 28 days is plenty of time.

This is also the first defeat for Blare who is now talking about some kind of conspiracy by the opposition and a large group of his own party’s MPs purely in order to inflict the defeat. Quite frankly I think that is very insulting on his part. He also talks about how the majority of the general public backed his 3 month limit. Where did he get that one from? I don’t know of anyone who was asked. And let’s be quite frank about this. There are not likely to be any suicide bombers in Scotland, Wales or Ireland. This is an English problem and unlike the others English people have a high regard for their hard-earned freedom and civil liberties, and we respect the liberties of others. We are not going to be dictated to by a political party which relies on it’s large contingent of foreign MPs. We are fed up with them, particularly the two-faced Scottish pricks (that’s the MPs not the citizens). For my own part I would quite happily give Scotland, Wales and Ireland full devolution. Scotland could even keep the oil for me, and Sean Connery. There isn’t much of it left anyway. This will never happen though whilst this government remains in power. They rely on their foreign contingent for their majority. Without them they would never get elected again in England. So where’s our English parliament then? Roll on I say.