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February 17, 2005

UK sliding towards police state shock

I am amazed that this appeared in a Murdoch newspaper...

Simon Jenkins - Conspiring in torture, betraying our freedom. Charles Clarke is a disaster: Neither the Prime Minister nor the Home Secretary have shown any contrition for the deceptive Iraq intelligence dossiers. Now they are inviting the agencies which wrote them free rein to deprive British citizens of their freedom. The deprivation will be indefinitely renewable, as will the law itself.. And there is worse to come. The control orders will be based not just on British intelligence but also on American, which means from the interrogation camps of Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo. Last year the Court of Appeal gave a ruling of astonishing naivety. It allowed the Home Secretary to detain people without trial on the basis of intelligence gained overseas by torture, so long as British agents were not doing the torturing. Perhaps the court thought the idea hypothetical.

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Please note that the author's contact details appear under both versions of this article. I would urge you to get in touch with him today and say something positive. This man deserves to be encouraged.

Posted by Manic on February 17, 2005 8:51 AM in the category The War on Stupid

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Jenkins is joining the Guardian shortly. Good thing for Guardian readers, less so for readers of the Times.

Posted by: Tim Aldrich at February 18, 2005 9:54 AM

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	« Girl with boobs has 'opinion' #342 \| Main \| Is Gareth Davies a Labour stooge? » February 17, 2005 UK sliding towards police state shock I am amazed that this appeared in a Murdoch newspaper... Simon Jenkins - Conspiring in torture, betraying our freedom. Charles Clarke is a disaster: Neither the Prime Minister nor the Home Secretary have shown any contrition for the deceptive Iraq intelligence dossiers. Now they are inviting the agencies which wrote them free rein to deprive British citizens of their freedom. The deprivation will be indefinitely renewable, as will the law itself.. And there is worse to come. The control orders will be based not just on British intelligence but also on American, which means from the interrogation camps of Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo. Last year the Court of Appeal gave a ruling of astonishing naivety. It allowed the Home Secretary to detain people without trial on the basis of intelligence gained overseas by torture, so long as British agents were not doing the torturing. Perhaps the court thought the idea hypothetical. (claps) (cheers) Bloggerheads readers from overseas can read this article in full here (cheers, Voidstar). Please note that the author's contact details appear under both versions of this article. I would urge you to get in touch with him today and say something positive. This man deserves to be encouraged. Posted by Manic on February 17, 2005 8:51 AM in the category The War on Stupid Pings (Trackback) For trackbacks, this is the URL: http://www.bloggerheads.com/cgi-bin/mt-tbbh_20x07.pl/244 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference UK sliding towards police state shock: » Warming up for the switch from What You Can Get Away With I'm sure someone out there among the 'we must do everything possible to protect ourselves from the eeevil terrorists who want to kill us all/we had to destroy freedom in order to save it' brigade will start snickering 'he's always wrong about ever... [Read More] Tracked on February 17, 2005 11:36 AM » Comrade Negroponte and the Bush Commissars from Little Red Blogger The accession of Negroponte to the blood stained throne of intelligence chief is a sign of intent with regards to the Bush administrations attitude to torture and other repressive activities. [Read More] Tracked on February 19, 2005 10:48 PM Comments Jenkins is joining the Guardian shortly. Good thing for Guardian readers, less so for readers of the Times. Posted by: Tim Aldrich at February 18, 2005 9:54 AM - Post a comment Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you're new to Bloggerheads, you may need to be approved by the moderator before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) URL: Remember me? YesNo Comments:

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