Mar. 5th, 2006

denny: (Toon)
Home Secretary Charles Clarke has criticised the House of Lords after it defeated government plans to outlaw the "glorification" of terrorism. [...]

It is the second time the Lords have voted against keeping the term in the Terrorism Bill. MPs reinstated it two weeks ago after the first Lords defeat.

Mr Clarke said he was "disappointed" and that he would seek to restore the term when the bill returned to MPs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4758258.stm

Is there any limit on how many times they can keep doing this for? It's starting to look like a process of attrition by tedium.
denny: (Toon)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1717661,00.html

"In both of these incidents, the normal rules of customer service had been suspended and replaced by something alarming: an assumption, by those in uniform, that a member of the public who questions them can now be treated as a potential threat."

"Dangerously for all of us, the fear of terrorism is legitimising intimidating behaviour by petty officials and agents of the state. It has become an excuse for bullying people when they step out of obedient lines."

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