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it would have been bad, but acceptable, if they'd stopped him and checked his bag. what they ACTUALLY did was insane and unforgiveable. |
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my first inclination was to moan about there being no synopsis so that i would know if i wanted to click or not,
but instead i shall say thanks for the link, i shall now throw out my black rucksack. m x |
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I've heard similar stories.
A friend of my mum was a mentor to a teenage refugee in Nottingham, he was given housing and employment on the condition that he met with his mentor once a week. One day the police picked him up randomly and took him from Nottingham to somewhere like Doncaster and interviewed him for 48 hours. He wasn't able to contact anyone in that time and so lost his job, missed his mentor meeting so lost his home and when he was released without charge he wasn't taken back to Nottingham so he was on the street in an unfamiliar town without any money. The terrorism act is not a good thing. |
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Crazy.
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Well our terrorism act was passed in 2000 so we set the precedent.
Britan, leading the world once again. Setting trends and harassing the French. |
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If he had have been carrying a bomb, the police would have done a marvellous job, though.
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If he had run off they would have pulled him down to the ground, made sure he wasn't moving, and shot him in the head.
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I think it was a BIT over the top. If he didn't have a bomb or any sor of explosive etc, how is he a threat? I think the laws are pretty shit if someone who's found innocent can't even get his stuff back and isn't supported by law. The public seem to have fewer and fewer rights, I guess. I thought the American Government was worse than ours, but it seems that that's pretty incorrect.
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I don't think that it'll ever get as far as 3 months. The Government are trying to extend the length of time from 2 weeks, and are asking for an obviously overlong period so they get about what they want after "negotiating".
tbh, I think they should have some sort of evidence, and if they find the person innocent afterwards there should be some sort of refund + getting your stuff back. I know the Daily Mail in particular loves to point out how if the government kept anyone who was ever accused of anything in jail then they wouldn't commit some crime later in life, but really I think if the terrorists strike again they're probably going to try something different. |
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Thank god you Brits are down in Iraq, teaching those iraqis the basics of freedom, civil rights & democrazy.
Go Tony, you teach em! |
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Tony isn't actually our prime minster. We disowned him. He floats from country to country telling everyone how much the UK love them and want to help them (unless they're in the middle east, and then they're guilty of breaking all sorts of laws and need to be invaded with his friend Georgy so he can make a huge mess and steal some of that there oil).
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The police should have arrested his girlfriend as well, she might have been the one carrying the bombs that day.
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the police were paranoid at the time, not shocked that they made a fook up somewhere.
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Hopefully the situation will be slightly better. It's not like any future suicide bombers will look identically the same as before, as they're more likely to be caught then. Intelligent suicide bombers would do something different to before, unless/until the police stopped paying so much attention to "suspicious" people on public transport any more.
But if they arrest innocent people and screw up things like jobs and homes as in Ste's example I think the police must have to sort it out, tbh. |
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Id be interested to know what they based their 'suspicious' behaviour on, im sure they have psychological modeling of what they think suicide bombers would behave like, i wonder if it matched anything that happened in London. The 'not looking at the pigs' bit is a catch22 situation if ever i heard one, afaik the ****ers stop you if you make eye contact! which is why ive always followed the stare straight ahead school of passing a police man.
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He was arrested for being French in public, obviously. A sensible law by any standard.
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His complaint about them not letting him phone his girlfriend before they raided the flat was pretty stupid imo. "Hey honey, how are you? Good, good. Can you flush the crack stash down the toilet and throw the bomb making kit out the window? Ta." (in-code).
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Mabye we should just herd all black and asian people into camps like what they did with the japs in America during WW2. It would save the police in London the effort of arresting/shooting all of them.
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I believe they have orders to shoot to kill any asian wearing hawaiian t-shirts this winter. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/4277532.stm |
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I don't think the iraqis have an extradition treaty with the UK.
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I would have more sympathy with the author if he wasn't a journalist though |
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Over here the journalists do silly things like plant fake bombs to 'test' security (It's sells papers) and it wouldn't surprise me that this idiot was all set to do an expose on how he managed to get onto an underground train with a rucksack and big jacket just to make the police look even sillier, right up to the point where he was arrested. Plus he was french. |
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journalists free lance articles. journalists have a special interest in ensuring that 'exciting' things happen to them. so that they have exciting things to write about. stop dismissing sensible ideas out of hand Irish! |
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The proposed story of "oh look at me I got onto the subway with a rucksack and a big jacket" wouldn't sell a story to a half-mad compulsive-newspaper buying conspiracy theorist who believed that wearing a big jacket while carrying a rucksack makes you the overlord of the sixth circle of hell.
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best make sure you get arrested then. that way you can sell it to the guardian ;) |
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Grave reservations remain as to the likelihood of such an event considering the incredibly common actions he was performing.
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thank goodness we have independant evidence to corroborate his story
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It's entirely irrelevant whether the story is being exagerrated, or even completely madeup. All thats important is whether the police have the power to do what was described in the article under current laws.
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Forgive us I beg of thee!! Forgive those of us who could not see your divine plan when you just posted a ****ing link with no ****ing comment and a sensationalist thread title. Forgive us Great God of the Troll |
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anyone done a search for David Mery ?
the results are um, startling..... |
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