The House of Lords has rejected 42 days internment for “terrorist” suspects by 309 votes to 118 – apparently the biggest defeat in the House of Lords in living memory. If proof was needed of the importance of an independent upper house, unaffected by the whims and whips of party politics, this is surely it.  [...]

Earth First, a militant group of eco-facist anarchists, are planning another eco-terrorist training climate camp in Norfolk. According to Communist Socialist Unity, the camps “have the climate camp vibe and lots of good workshops for political education”. I think I’ll pass. Technorati Tags: Eco-terrorists

Eco-terrorists causing an nuisance at a “climate camp” at Kingsnorth power station have had some of their cars towed away by the police. Kent Police said they asked the eco-terrorists to move two cars from the entrance to the power station for safety reasons because they were blocking the only gateway onto the camp site but [...]

Public bodies used “anti-terrorism” laws to make over half a million requests for information like phone and internet records last year. In 2006 only 350,000 requests for information were made by public bodies, in 2007 that had risen to 519,000. The legislation that lets public bodies such as local councils get this information and carry [...]

Tony McNulty, the Liebour Home Office minister who helped bully and bribe the recent “anti-terrorism” legislation through the British Parliament, has criticised David Davis for resigning and forcing a by-election to give the electorate their only chance to have a vote on the abolition of civil liberties. McNulty says that David Davis should have made [...]

You’d have thought George Ashcroft would have enough to do with his time as a borough councillor, assistant to the local Conswervative PPC and cabinet member for regeneration on Telford & Wrekin Council but apparently not. This letter is in tonight’s Shropshire Star: CIVIL RIGHT TO BE SAFE FROM TERROR Stuart Parr says that he [...]

About 90,000 Spanish lorry drivers started a protest at rising fuel prices at midnight last night. Some trucks trying to cross picket lines have had their windscreens smashed and their lights ripped out and tyres slashed. French fishermen were, a week ago, ramming yachts in harbour during a protest at rising fuel prices. There are protests [...]

In the face of international pressure – including the Americans – Israel has pulled its ground troops out of Gaza. In total, one Israeli civillian and two Israeli soldiers have been killed.  The Palestinian death toll is estimated at 112, an unspecified number of which were civillians. Israel’s illegal offensive started on Wednesday following the death [...]

How much is one Israeli life worth?  About one hundred Palestinians, apparently. Earlier in the week Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel and killed one Israeli.  The retaliation by Israel in Gaza has resulted in about 100 Palestinian deaths, including some young boys playing football in a field. Gaza is the most densely populated [...]

I thought I’d mistakenly typed the wrong url in and got a spoof version of the BBC News website when I read this but no, it’s not a joke. Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, says that adopting Sharia Law in the UK is inevitible and we should just get on with it.  He [...]

The British government is still determined to press ahead with plans for 42 day internment for “terrorist” suspects. As I’ve pointed out, several times before, anti-terrorism laws have so far caught 0 terrorists but have been used to arrest, detain, harass and deny liberty and fundamental constitutional rights for many innocent people. The Home Secretary, Jacqui [...]

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, has pronounced that the state should be allowed to detain “terrorism” suspects without charge for 42 days.  The 28 day limit that we currently have is already longer than any other developed nation.  The British government has already admitted that there have been no occasions when the current 28 day [...]

An English teacher sentenced to 15 days in prison in Sudan for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear “Mohammed” is now facing calls for the death penalty from dress wearing jihadi’s. Whilst it seems to be perfectly acceptable for the jihadi’s to call their sons Mohammed, a teacher who’s been in the country for a [...]

The British government has decided that it now wants to hold “terrorist suspects” for 58 days without charge. A few months back Liebour tried to change the amount of time someone could be held without charge from 2 weeks to 3 months.  Thankfully this was blocked but a compromise was reached allowing suspects to be [...]

A quick scan of the BBC News website this morning turned up a story about the British government’s intention to try and increase the amount of time they can hold someone suspected of terrorism without charge from 28 days to 56. Offences under the recent anti-terrorism laws include carrying a blank placard within 1km of Parliament and [...]

Pakistan has been placed under martial law after General Musharraf decided not to take the risk of losing a legal ruling on whether he can stand as president in an election whilst remaining head of the armed forces. Musharraf siezed power in a military coup but because it suited the Americans – he allowed them [...]

Israel is planning to cut the amount of power it supplies to the Gaza Strip claiming that because it has declared Palestine as “hostile” it is not bound by international laws requiring it, as an occupying power, to supply utilities to the civillian population. The view of the “international community” is that Israel still has [...]

An audio message has appeared on the internet, apparently recorded by Abu Omar-al-Baghdadi who the Americans believe is leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, offering a reward for the murder of Lars Vilks. Vilks is the Swedish newspaper cartoonist who chooses to express his right to freedom of expression by publishing cartoons of the muslim prophet [...]

The Americans have declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard – the religious army of Iran – a foreign terrorist organisation.  This is, of course, a prelude to American freedom fighters going in to save the world and liberate the Iranians from their oppresive government. According to the BBC, the Revolutionary Guard is estimated to have 125,000 troops [...]

The English language sometimes makes it hard to convey your actual meaning in writing but, on the other hand, it makes for suitably ambiguous headlines like this one. Some time ago, the British government tried to change the law so that “terrorist suspects” could be locked up for 3 months without charge.  The attempt failed as [...]