Comments on: Terror

By: PapaLazzzaru

PapaLazzzaru — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:03:45 +0000

"That was something he thought the public found easy to understand and take a firm view on"

Then it shows how far removed he really is from Planet Earth, then, doesn’t it?

By: PapaLazzzaru

PapaLazzzaru — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:01:47 +0000

"the PMOS said in terms if the action we were taking, as the Prime Minister had said in his Daily Telegraph article, that action was dictated by the needs of the Police and the Security Services"

Ah NOW I see! It was the POLICE who went to the government and said "Look cheps, ‘fraid we are gonna need extraORDINARY new powers, what with all these Johnny Foreigners a-plotting". And there was me thinking it was Dave "Shagnasty" Blunkett who’d dreamt up this insanity…

By: PapaLazzzaru

PapaLazzzaru — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:33:19 +0000

"He would not get into a hypothetical discussion but people should know that if they broke the law then the law would be applied"

So we’re allowed to know a law exists, but not how it should be translated???

By: PapaLazzzaru

PapaLazzzaru — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:31:46 +0000

"We were concerned about them because, potentially, they were planning or considering potential terrorist action"

If we were so concerned about them that we have them under surveillance - well we must have, or otherwise how would we know they are any kind of threat? - and we knew they were *planning* terrorist action, then surely we would arrest them?

But in all seriousness, how do you consider someone a threat because they are *considering* terrorist action??? How on earth do you quantify that???

By: PapaLazzzaru

PapaLazzzaru — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:21:54 +0000

"Put to him that saying there were hundreds of terrorists out there might be considered alarmist, the PMOS said what the Prime Minister was most concerned about, as always, was that people should focus on the substance and not interpretation or speculation"

That’s a reversal of position; when the PM took this country into Iraq, it was the interpretation of the available "facts" and the way they were presented in the infamous Dossier that was the important thing: the government deliberately and repeatedly reworded the thing so that it gave a completely different interpretation to the original message, and they hammered home the importance of this procedure during numerous enquiries.