MPs 'will buy' 42-day detention
"A Home Office minister says he believes plans to extend detention of terror suspects will get through Parliament - saying he thinks MPs "will buy it".
Tony McNulty told the BBC that concerns about the plans to extend the limit on holding suspects without charge from 28 to 42 days were "reasonable".
But the measures were not about locking people up "and throwing away the key", Mr McNulty told BBC Radio 4.
"Once people understand...the temporary nature then people do buy it," he said".
If Tony McNulty thinks that 6 weeks in prison is a temporary measure, then perhaps he would not mind sampling some of it himself? It is ridiculous to suggest that Parliament should vote on the issue every time an extension is sought to detain terrorist suspects beyond 28 days. This would be a waste of Parliamentary time. Just like this plan to seek an unnecessary extension to a period of detention which is already too long as it is.
Growing opposition to terror law
"An imperative legal change to confront the growing threat of terrorism, or an unnecessary attack on the fundamental principles of the law?".
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Pure coincidence but over the weekend I happened to hear the song "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six" by the Pogues. There is a line which protests against the treatment of terror suspects which goes:
"in Ireland they'll put you away in the Maze, in England they'll keep you for 7 long days"
Now we are discussing 42 days, it is amazing how liberties get gradually eroded with noone noticing - reminds me of your post on the timeline of Nazi legislation, and of a comment by Solzenitsyn when asked why people never repelled against Stalin - he said there was never ONE moment when things changed dramatically enough to cause public revolt. It was always gradual, or it was someone else.
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