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Here's one from our Here-Is-The-Rope-You-Can-Use-To-Hang-Me Department: "Terror suspects to get laptops," from UPI, with thanks to Latifah:
LONDON, March 8 (UPI) -- London's Belmarsh prison will provide laptops to 28 top terror suspects, a decision that has shocked critics.Officials at the facility -- which holds those arrested under the anti-terror law -- say the computers are needed to help the suspects prepare their legal defense, reports The Mirror.
The laptops will not provide Internet access to the suspects, but critics say they can still be used for criminal activity.
"The prisoners could easily make CD-Roms, which could be handed to visitors, and orchestrate criminal activity from the inside," said one. "Inmates are incredibly resourceful. It wouldn't surprise me if they eventually managed to get the Internet on their laptops."
Other irate critics say the nearly $50,000 to be spent on the computers can be better used to increase security. The Mirror said the facility currently is about a third understaffed.
Inmates at the prison include those accused of the July bombings in London, al-Qaida suspects and members of a Muslim bully boys' gang, the report said.
Posted by Robert at March 9, 2006 4:34 AM
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Under the terms of the Magna Carta, Treaty of Wesphalia, Paris, Paris, Ghent, um, Paris, UDHR, EU protocol, Belmarsh Electronic Liberation Act, and the Human Rights Act prisoners should all receive Wi-Fi, DSL, and Fly Aces High.
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at March 9, 2006 5:10 AM
This should be an easy one to fix. Just provide CD-ROM drives on the laptops, as opposed to CD-RW, DVD-RW or any writable device. Oh, and make sure there are no USB ports - don't want terrorists to start using U3 enabled USB drives.
Oh, and make sure that the laptops don't contain any wi-fi, and to be doubly sure, remove any access points from the vicinity of the area.
BTW, do these come with software pre-loaded?
Posted by: Infidel Pride at March 9, 2006 5:39 AM
"This should be an easy one to fix. Just provide CD-ROM drives on the laptops, as opposed to CD-RW, DVD-RW or any writable device. Oh, and make sure there are no USB ports - don't want terrorists to start using U3 enabled USB drives."
Exactly. If they need a laptop, I am pretty sure that the only program they will truly need will be Microsoft Word (or maybe Powerpoint). Give them computers with the minimal software requirements and raid their cells periodically to inspect the hardware of the laptops. End of story.
Posted by: cruzado at March 9, 2006 5:56 AM
Pen and paper.
Posted by: Yojimbo at March 9, 2006 6:46 AM
For Christs sake.
at March 9, 2006 6:54 AM
Why just the terrorists? Why not give each prisoner a laptop on entering prison? Equal opportunity.
Posted by: freewoman at March 9, 2006 7:28 AM
But they have lawyers paid for by the state, they are the ones who should be doing this, there is no need for this, the mind just boggles...
Posted by: Daffersd at March 9, 2006 7:55 AM
How many more bombs, innocent people killed and maimed will it take for these idiots to grow grey matter and nards?
Posted by: mustang65 at March 9, 2006 8:50 AM
You took the words right out of my mouth, Yojimbo.
Posted by: Vee at March 9, 2006 8:56 AM
Not much use to Abu Hamza.
Posted by: Interested at March 9, 2006 9:08 AM
Not much use to Abu Hamza.
Posted by: Interested at March 9, 2006 09:08 AM
LOL!
Posted by: waterdragon52 at March 9, 2006 9:15 AM
Actually Abbu Hamza already has one, which is kinda strange as he has been convicted, is he appealing by any chance?
Posted by: Daffersd at March 9, 2006 10:06 AM
is he appealing by any chance?
Not in the least. He's got a face like a bag of spanners.
at March 9, 2006 10:17 AM
Somehow, I don't suppose they'll give me a brand new computer to replace my elderly one. Seems I'll have to pay for it after all. So much for honesty.
Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at March 9, 2006 10:29 AM
"Officials at the facility -- which holds those arrested under the anti-terror law -- say the computers are needed to help the suspects prepare their legal defense, reports The Mirror."
Not necessarily. It just so happens that there is provision to withold the statements in child abuse/molestation cases from the defendants and only allow them access re their defence or appeal in controlled conditions. The reason being that the statements were being passed around the prison as a form of child porn currency. For a child molester to read a child's statement of what another child molester had done to him/her was almost as good as porn to these men.
I don't see why a similar restraint for security reasons cannot apply to terrorists.
at March 9, 2006 10:36 AM
People - people - stop making so much sense :) !
My husband is a businessman and lawyer. When working he habitually uses yellow legal pads and (thanks Yojimbo!) a pen or pencil.
For terrorists? Absolutely nothing should be placed in their hands that can be fashioned into weapons. Nothing. Let their poor lawyers (also provided gratis) do the legal work. Laptops indeed!
Posted by: Daisytoo at March 9, 2006 11:03 AM
What about giving these God-damned bastards a pad of paper and a pencil.
They are laughing at us, and rightly so.
Posted by: Cato the Elder at March 9, 2006 5:12 PM
Cato-
These prisoners should only be given wax pencils, which are far less dangerous than wooden ones, and unbound stacks of blank paper.
Real little kids in the kingdom need these computer resources.
For more important things, like a serious education.
One that includes the present planetary challenge to our future liberty by an utterly amoral cult's terrorist dogmas.
Know thy enemy- or else.
Posted by: profitsbeard at March 9, 2006 7:57 PM
How did prisoners prepare their legal defense before computers were invented?
Can't they be given a pen and paper?
Posted by: Voltaire at March 10, 2006 3:56 AM
This is OT but on a theme, and thus, I hope, acceptable to post here.
"When the bombers came to London one Thursday morning last July, Mohammad Juned Khan was set for a day at school like any other....
On Friday 17-year-old Juned, along with other Camden students, will be taking part in a ceremony at the European Parliament in Brussels to commemorate the victims of terrorism.
As a Muslim, he will tell the ceremony: "It is important to me to stress that in no shape or form can these terrorists associate themselves to Islam......
"It's nothing to do with Islam and I don't think it's right to associate those people with our religion," Juned told the BBC News website. "It makes me feel angry. Some people look at us as if we should apologise, but we have nothing to apologise for."....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4790686.stm
I believe that they are seriously worried now that we are starting to "get" what their religion of death is really all about.
at March 10, 2006 4:23 AM
The piece Granny Weatherwax posted is rather revealing. That 17-year-old Muslim, like the typical Muslim, cannot bring himself to condemn the terrorists or admit Islam is a religion of terror. Instead weasel words like "its un-Islamic" or like what he said "its nothing to do with Islam" get used, to try to excuse Islam and give it a free pass, and the journalists cannot or will not see that. The fact is - its everything to do with Islam, and the burning desire of Muslims to see Islam cover the entire planet at the expense of all other faiths, and impose itself, its vile Sharia laws, misogyny, prejudices, backwardness, customs and way of life on everybody - and terrorism, along with outbreeding us - even in our own backyard, are merely two of their methods of achieving this goal. To think that 750,000 US and British troops made the ultimate sacrifice to create a land fit for heroes a mere 61 years ago, only for the media and all manner of ungrateful, politically-correct eejits to abuse the heroic efforts of their fathers and grandfathers generations, and do their damndest to render the sacrifices of one of the finest generations that ever lived as meaningless, and it really must break the hearts of those remaining survivors from both World Wars (only four British World War I veterans are still alive today), to see the beginning of the end of their "land fit for heroes" dream, courtesy of the creeping Islamization of the West.
Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at March 10, 2006 3:24 PM
You say Granny Weatherwax,
" I believe that they are seriously worried now that we are starting to "get" what their religion of death is really all about."
However, they also have this to bolster themselves until Dhimmitude pays even bigger benefits: "Some people say it is a clash of civilisations, but I disagree. London is a multicultural city. Multiculturalism is what makes London; it has been very successful."
I'll say it's been very successful albeit successful for all the wrong reasons.
Posted by: Daisytoo at March 10, 2006 5:49 PM
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