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Idiotic anti-terror laws and the morons who support them : articles

Idiotic anti-terror laws and the morons who support them

Posted Monday 14th March 2005

I'm finding it hard to believe what is going on in this country at the moment, and it's making me rather angry. Charles Clarke and the other dangerous lunatics in government are trying their hardest to erode a fundamental cornerstone of our society - the right to a fair trial, and the guarantee of "innocent until proven guilty".

This right is of such great importance that many people have died in the past to protect it (WW2, anyone?) and we should not be so short sighted to allow it to be taken away from us now. What is being proposed is so fundamentally wrong that it would seek to undermine and completely remove the very heart of our entire criminal justice system - the one that guarantees that nobody may be imprisoned without their guilt being proven in a court of law.

I'm not saying there isn't a terrorist threat, but as with the Iraq war, it's very difficult to take seriously anything this government tells us without several generous helpings of salt. So far, they speak only in heavily loaded threatening language, designed to shock and scare us into submission to their every whim. Only a fool could have believed that Iraq actually posed a real danger to us, and only an idiot would let the same bunch of liars in government fool them a second time.

When are these idiots going to learn: you don't gain the slightest bit of security by giving up your rights (however much safer it may make you feel), and that by removing the right to a fair trial, you're opening the gateway for anybody to be locked up for any undisclosed reason for any amount of time. There's a name for that - it's called "living in a police state", and was exactly the kind of "justice system" used by the Nazis (and countless other corrupt governments) in order to get rid of anybody who disagreed with them - or indeed, just anybody at all.

Clearly these clueless bastards were not paying attention during their history lessons at school, otherwise they would spot the familiar pattern a mile off.

"If you're innocent you have nothing to fear" will be the braindead mantra of the morons supporting this law. If these terror suspects are guilty, then charge them with a crime and prove it in court, or let them go. Without the burden of proof, we simply cannot go around imprisoning people - not to mention indefinitely - however much we suspect they might be terrorists.

I've even heard the morons saying things like "but it will help catch these people before they commit crimes". Stop and think about the impossible "logic" of that argument for a second. What on earth are we going to imprison them for if they haven't yet committed a crime? Last I checked, you had to have actually committed a crime before you could be sent to prison for it, but this is fast turning into a bad re-hash of the plot from Minority Report!

Perhaps the irony of the undemocratic Lords stepping in to protect our democratic rights against the (supposedly) democratic government trying to take them away is lost on these morons, but I guess it's hard to make space for irony when your rather small brain is already working overtime processing all that spoon-fed panic?

It's time to get a fucking grip! The reason we are a terrorist target is because - thanks to the continued aggressive action of our government, in collaboration with the gun-toting liars in charge of the USA - we've done a really great job of terrorising, ruining and often ending the lives of thousands upon thousands of innocent people all over the world, and we're still doing it today!! While pretending to spread freedom and democracy, we're not only acting as agents of terror in other countries, we're also using an extremely undemocratic process (war) to bring "democracy" about, and it's all for our thinly-veiled financial gain anyway! Until we stop doing that, we're always going to be a target - and to be honest, we deserve it for letting our government literally get away with murder! If you want terrorism to stop, you have to address the root cause of it - our own self-legitimised terrorism being carried out all over the world.

I'm not a terrorist sympathiser, but occasionally you have to stop and wonder: what are they trying to tell us? To entertain the thought that they might in fact have a point, however barbaric their way of expressing it, is to recognise that we might possibly have done a few things to provoke them in the first place, and that perhaps we ought to seriously reconsider the actions of our government throughout the world. Our easy lives have come at a price, that being that other people have been made to suffer in order to maintain the balance of power in our favour. Until that changes, we will always be seen (and rightly so) as a self-serving, dangerous threat to other nations.

Everybody would do well to remind themselves that the purpose of a government has never been to protect it's population from physical harm (otherwise, why the conscription in WW2, and why the willingness to lay down lives in battle today?) and always to protect the rights of it's citizens. "Freedom isn't free" as the pro-war lobby will tell you, yet when it comes to fighting for their own freedoms, the same idiots will give up their fundamental rights without a second thought.

I don't know the source of this next quote, but it perfectly sums up my thoughts on this matter: "I would sooner be killed in a free country than live in a police state."

If we give up our rights now, what exactly do we have left to protect? If we allow anyone, however suspicious they might be, to be imprisoned indefinitely without trial, then we've already lost what we're supposedly trying to preserve - our freedom and our democratic way of life.

The answer is resoundingly clear: scrap this ridiculous legislation, put all terror suspects on trial for their alleged crimes, or let them go. There should be no imprisonment without trial, ever! Perhaps if we changed our way of life a little and punished governments (such as our own) that use war for their own gain, we could stop worrying about being a terrorist target too!

The fact is, this is all our fault in the first place, and locking up any number of terror suspects isn't going to make one iota of difference when we continue to provoke millions of people to hate us for what we as a country really are - war-mongering capitalist bastards.

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