Comments on: Phone tapping evidence could help convict Britain’s terrorists

By: electro-kevin

electro-kevin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:14:52 +0000

“Politicians, like lawyers, do not want a solution to a problem that works well and is cheap. They want a managing methodology, one that requires their constant ongoing intervention and the liberal application of money (preferably taxpayers’).”

Tuscan Tony.

By: Winchester whisperer

Winchester whisperer — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:42:07 +0000

Agreeing to phone tapping as an acceptable norm of life is letting the terrorists win the argument.

By: jameshigham

jameshigham — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:20:22 +0000

Phone tapping evidence could help convict Britain’s ordinary citizens doing nothing but deemed subversive by Brown’s SS.

By: electro-kevin

electro-kevin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:17:46 +0000

“How many terrorists have escaped conviction because of our reticence about it?”

Not many. For all the hystrionics from Government and senior police chiefs we are remarkably terror free. Nothing like the IRA terror campaign of the ’70s.

“Ah – but this is because the security services are playing their socks off.” To paraphrase Commissioner Sir Ian Blair.

Partly I agree, but mainly because the threat is deliberately overstated.

There will always be terror. There will always be some degree of threat on our streets – living bravely with that is always the price to be paid for freedom. Not by carving away liberties, stepping up state intrusion into our lives. That’s the path to tyranny.

By: electro-kevin

electro-kevin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:08:02 +0000

“The safety and security of our citizens should be the first objective of any government.”

So it should, but I don’t believe that this is the true motive of any government which refuses to have proper border controls.(Sorry to keep repeating myself)

There is another form of terrorism which kills far more people and that is violent street crime. The police and Government are weak in dealing with this though they know exactly who the perpetrators are.

We are being deliberately turned into a police state under the guise of terror prevention. What other conclusion can I possibly come to ?

By: Welshcakes Limoncello

Welshcakes Limoncello — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:54:09 +0000

Difficult for me to judge, not being in the UK at the moment. But it does seem to me that when you are dealing with people who don’t even value their own lives, extreme measures are sadly necessary. I think I agree with MM above.

By: MICHAEL MANNING

MICHAEL MANNING — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:23:55 +0000

Ellee: This is a huge emotional hot button topic here in the USA. Many oppose wiretaps; I do not. It is said that our security services have broken up plots at an average of one a day since 9/11. That means we have sleeper cells here, as I’m sure in Britain (after your atrocity in The Tube). All 41 recommendations of the 9/11 panel have been approved but 11 remain to be activated, as I understand it. There is no time to delay when it comes to stopping these thugs for who human life means nothing and putting them out of business for good! I’m glad you posted this!!!

By: Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:02:30 +0000

Home Secretaries will always fudge on this. They don’t want to commit themselves.

By: Quasar9

Quasar9 — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:19:55 +0000

Amazing really that all our conversations on mobile phones CAN be intercepted, and our e-mail too. You’d think sophisticated terrorists would use smoke signals.

By: Casdok

Casdok — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:54:30 +0000

As you say – ludicrous.