Police and PM in dock over arrest of terrorist suspects
Case against Muslim men amounted to one email and handful of telephone conversations
The case against 12 Muslim men involved in what Gordon Brown described as a "major terrorist plot" amounted to one email and a handful of ambiguous telephone conversations, it emerged last night after all the men were released without charge.
Eleven Pakistani students and one British man were freed after extensive searches of 14 addresses in North-west England failed to locate evidence of terrorist activity, according to security sources. Police did not find any explosives, firearms, target lists, documents or any material which could have been used to carry out an attack.
Last night Lord Carlile, the reviewer of terror laws, said he would be heading an immediate "snapshot" investigation into the arrests.
The Home Office said it would deport the 11 Pakistani men, who are aged 22 to 38 and were in Britain on student visas, because the Government believed they represented a threat to national security.
This could be the script for a film titled The Twelve Angry Muslim Men. They were arrested prematurely. A top cop forced to resign. The government claiming that they pose a threat to security in this country, but not a shred of evidence is produced to support this belief. Nevertheless, they were all detained for almost 2 weeks. Then when a judge orders their release from custody, they are transferred into a different type of custody namely immigration detention centres. The government is seeking to deport them, even though they are legally in this country on student visas, on the grounds that they are an embarrassment to the government.
Because the 12 angry Muslim men have been branded as suspected terrorists in this country, should they be deported they face torture and death in their own country Pakistan for being tarnished as suspected terrorists.
Powers granted to protect the public are being used to terrorise the public.
This case has all the appearance of "My Geranium is Subversive", a psychological study undertaken in prison where guards suspected the innocent activity of inmates watching a plant grow as being a threat to the good order and discipline of the prison.
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2 comments:
I thought this would come back to bite the authorities on their rear end when the news broke, especially as Quick was involved, not the sharpest knife in the draw.
So much for being innocent till one is convicted, now you just get deported instead, another sad day for British justice.
BB: Knee-jerkism is alive and well in the UK...
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