An update on this story: some in Britain are getting fed up with the pusillanimity and dhimmitude of British officialdom. "Judges blamed as terrorism suspects flee," by Michael Holden for Reuters, :
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair blamed judges on Tuesday for watering down security laws after media reports two terrorism suspects had gone on the run.One of the two escapees, accused of wanting to go to Iraq to fight, went missing two weeks ago after escaping through a window at a London mental health unit. The other disappeared some months earlier.
The revelations threw the spotlight on Blair's controversial anti-terrorism laws introduced after the September 11, 2001, attacks, many of which have fallen foul of the courts where they have been ruled illegal for infringing human rights.
At his monthly press conference on Tuesday, Blair re-opened a simmering feud with the judiciary which he accuses of putting the rights of terrorism suspects above the concerns of fellow Britons.
"We, of course, wanted far tougher laws against terrorism. We were prevented by opposition in parliament and then by the courts in ensuring that was done," he told reporters when questioned about the missing suspects....
So-called control orders were rushed through parliament under last year's Prevention of Terrorism Act after judges threw out emergency post-September 11 powers which allowed the police to jail foreign terrorism suspects indefinitely.
The measures allow the government to limit suspects' movements which often amounts to virtual house arrest.
They are applied to terrorism suspects that Britain is unable to deport due to concerns about possible mistreatment in their homeland or cannot put on trial because there is not enough admissible evidence to use in British courts.
However, in June the High Court ruled these powers broke the European Convention of Human Rights because suspects were deprived of their liberty without a trial.
The two escapees, now being hunted by the police, were thus being held under less stringent control orders.
"I wanted to make sure that the original anti-terrorist legislation was maintained in full," Blair said. "Control orders were never going to be as effective as detention."...
The revelations threw the spotlight on Blair's controversial anti-terrorism laws introduced after the September 11, 2001, attacks, many of which have fallen foul of the courts where they have been ruled illegal for infringing human rights.
Why can't these laws be applied to terrorists?
They act as savages and barbarians and therefore forfeit any humanity and any rights reserved for humans.
Just leave the jail open Im sure theyll be back.
Muhammad Atta was quoted by an associate as saying he wasn't concerned about American counter-intelligence in the days before 9-11.
"The enemy is stupid" was the exact quote.
If the British continue to allow militant Islam to sweep through the moderate Islamic community and perform "Hitler youth type conversions" on its young people, thousands of Innocent Muslims and NON muslims will perish in the bloody conflicts which will ensue.
Hitler introduced the comcept of "Total war" to be waged, not against the Western 'quasi aryans' countries, but against the sub human Poles and the untermensch Russians,
A much better term, in my opinion would be "Unconditional War".
In other words, nothing the enemy can do can prevent it . No amount of of appeasement or kindness or indeed condemnation or aggression or negotiation will have any effect.
This is the war which is being waged against the west by the splinter groups of the original muslim brotherhood. But in the same way that Hitler's war of extermination in Eastern europe could only be waged once the Germans had fully converted to Nazism, the same war against the west can only be effective once a significant portion of moderate muslims have been radicalised.
The terrorists we catch are the product of this radicalisation that is happening as we speak in Mosques Islamic schools,etc throughout the UK.
A radicalisation that is still in its infancy despite being ignored for so many years by our Government.
There is still time to prevent a tsunami of islamic fascism spreading over the whole of Europe's muslim population.
There is still time to prevent a tsunami of islamic fascism spreading over the whole of Europe's muslim population.
Posted by: chevalier de st george
I am afraid the horse is long out of the barn, St. George.
The Judiciary is crackpot - but Blair's own wife is a trainee judge as Recorder............she has made money agitating in court for Muslim girls to wear the jilbab, she expressed "understanding" for suicide bombers.
Blair is a hypocrite. He could have deported these people back to their countries of origin and told the Judges to take a hike.
He could have passed clearer legislation instead of rushing into law without looking at the drafts properly.
With Blair someone else is always at fault...........never him
We did not need tough new anti-terrorism legislation post 9/11. Our problem lies with the European Bill of Human Rights that we are signed up to preventing us from applying common sense justice to terrorist suspects. This Government is making bad law worse. Always mindful not to offend ONE particular religion's sensibilities, Labour has pussyfooted around its responsibilities of protecting the vast majority of law abiding citizens to prevent a backlash from the left of the party and their electorate. This country is a haven for those intent on acts of terrorism in their native countries. Knowing that once they arrive on our shores they have rights and the more serious their alleged crimes were the more secure their stay will be.
These undesirables need to be repatriated to their country of origin. Let their respective countries administer justice to them. Our prisons, hospitals and detention centres do not deter, are over crowded, expensive to run and no more secure than a walk-in day centre.
Still waiting for Blair's "500 clerics to be deported..."
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Lets get very real here, it was BLAIR who signed us up for the european human rights, and as such he's post attempts at sorting out legislation to combat terrorism fell instantly foul of his own previous handywork
reap what you sow, except he doesnt being as he's surrounded daily by armed police, instead its just us poor wide awake to the reality of jihaddist who get to feel the next bomb go off/ rape of a non islamic maiden / feel the blade of the islamic random killer
sickening