Terror alert: Blair to force through 90-day detention

[sabra]

http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1178302006

Terror alert: Blair to force through 90-day detention

TONY Blair is planning to push through 90-day detention without charge for terror suspects following the alleged plot to murder thousands of airline passengers by blowing their jets out of the sky.

Senior ministers believe public concern about terrorism is now at such a level that they will be able to reintroduce the controversial detention powers, which were rejected in favour of a 28-day limit following the 7/7 attacks.

A senior government source confirmed that Blair, Chancellor Gordon Brown and Home Secretary John Reid all believed that the UK's apparently narrow escape from a major disaster proved the case for a clamp-down on "the enemy within".

The source said: "It is one of the few things that Brown, Blair and Reid can agree on."

[Redstone]

1. Hey, the Brits put up with all those traffic cameras; they'll probably

accept this without a fight.

Redstone

[acmejack]

2. In the UK they publicly announce this sort of decision at least.

[AlamoDemoc]

3. This means 90 days without due process. 28 days is not long enough? n/t

:puke:

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

9. From "Private Eye" when they last tried this in November

[AlamoDemoc]

11. One can assume with these reversing dates that we are not far from

proposal of concentration camps next.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Why would he need it if they had a decent case? 28 days was

enough till now. 90 days gets us closer to November. They don't want to admit this was a hoax until after the election.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Obviously, they don't have enough evidence at this point

So Blair has to stall. He figures in 90 days the world will be onto the next crisis and by then no one will be paying attention to this latest fiasco.

[elehhhhna]

6. REC'D. Charge them if you have the evidence. If not,

hold them and release them after our Congressional elections?

HOW OBVIOUS IS THAT?

[NVMojo]

7. Keep em there so Bush and GOP can milk it until the election

easy to see.

[leesa]

8. Here's the goal...smothering civil rights. Why do they not charge them?

They say they have a case, then why hold them without charges?? This is the same bullshit Bush is trying to push through with his handpuppet Gonzales.

The cowering Brits and the cowering Yanks will all nod their bobble heads and let them get away with it again!

[JAYJDF]

10. As I read here earlier here on DU, the Brits wanted to delay

picking them up because they wanted to find more evidence. Now they're in a pickle because Busch wanted it done now.
And I now agree that the 90 days before charging is to wait until after Nov elections here.
The bastards!

[mcscajun]

12. Blair's jailing them there so we don't have to jail them over here.

Those pesky rights we have...

Or do we?