While we fight an extension to detention (oh yeah!) without charge to 42 days/six weeks (maybe they think 42 days will give them the answer to life, the universe & everything- or in other words 41 days of torture and one day to sign the piece of paper they put in front of you), let’s not forget it already is 28 days/4 weeks which puts us in line with…Burma and Ming the Merciless probably. At the end of all this the best we have achieved is not to have a 42 day/6 week limit. We are still busily building ourselves a real world theme park based on the hit film Brazil.
So Dear Establishment-
I am not afraid of terrorism, and I want you to stop being afraid on my behalf. Please start scaling back the official government war on terror. Please replace it with a smaller, more focused anti-terrorist police effort in keeping with the rule of law. Please stop overreacting. I understand that it will not be possible to stop all terrorist acts. I accept that. I am not afraid.
Let ’em know- They Work For You.
2 April, 2008 at 12:17 pm
If anyone here in the US said they were not afraid of terrorism, the right wing would accuse them of being cowards. (No, I’m not making this up.)
2 April, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Peace is War!
23 April, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I fear that the British government is becoming more dangerous than those it proposes to protect us from.
23 April, 2008 at 8:27 pm
It often has been!