I suppose I had better read this, rather than the newspaper reports. I offer you the link. There’s a massive .pdf file two clicks further on for those of you who can face it. BBC comments at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7961299.stm Again the two sides on Bob Lambert’s thesis are in full play in the PREVENT part of … NEW UK COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY
Goodness me. This takes me back. The Symbionese Liberation Army, Patty Hearst and all the weirdness of American domestic terrorism. The Weathermen [later Weather Underground], the Black Panthers [J.Edgar Hoover really bent the law around them]…all the stuff that supposedly never happened, because the USA has never had any domestic terrorists….hah! Its amazing how the … SYMBIONESE LIBERATION PAROLEE
Sorry Gordon, we dont believe you. We are just so disappointed in you. You have proved that “anybody but Blair” is not enough. When we arent allowed to photograph police officers in the name of counter-terrorism or even take photos in shopping malls because of the petty security officers you have given power over us, … GORDON BROWN TELLS US HOW IS PROTECTING OUR RIGHTS
“The Home Office says the proposal would give the UK the most comprehensive counter-terror strategy in the world.” Apparently we have trained tens of thousands of people including retailers…but we are still marching to the tune of the security services, not the service policing model. Ho hum…what was it …History repeats itself, the first time … UK PLANS COMPREHENSIVE TERROR LAW
Keep em calm, eh?? We can’t afford rehabilitation, so lets keep em stoned. The massive public sector cuts next year really arent going to help, either. And the health service really isnt going to prioritise drug rehabilitation therapy, is it? All that money being wasted on training retail workers in counter-terrorism when shoplifting is much … SCOTTISH JAILS “AWASH” WITH DRUGS
Best of luck guys. This takes courage.
“Richard Holbrooke said the $800m (£550m) a year the US was spending on counter-narcotics would be better used in supporting Afghan farmers.” Now that applies to the previous posts too, in its own way. Stop the paramilitary top-down approach and get back to bottom-up community empowerment. Holbrooke is Obama’s special envoy. Now if Obama could … ENVOY DAMNS US AFGHAN DRUG EFFORT
These are the guys that matter. Local communities fighting back. Like the anti-Mafia marchers. I await the British Muslims marching in support of Gordon Brown…or even against the jihadists. Empower the people on the street. You cant win these conflicts with databases and bureaucracies with boxes to tick…which is what these “training programmes” of the … PAKISTANI VILLAGERS PAY A PRICE FOR DEFYING REBELS
Camp Bucca closing and out go the inmates, most of whom should never have been arrested in the first place. Yup, they’re going to be cross and some hardcore guys will cause trouble. The US started wrong and they’re finishing wrong. Lessons for Afghanistan? Send in the clowns. Talking of which, tourists are back in … IN IRAQ, CHAOS FEARED AS US CLOSES PRISON
These are the guys that matter. Local communities fighting back. Like the anti-Mafia marchers. I await the British Muslims marching in support of Gordon Brown…or even against the jihadists. Empower the people on the street. You cant win these conflicts with databases and bureaucracies with boxes to tick…which is what these “training programmes” of the … PAKISTANI VILLAGERS PAY A PRICE FOR DEFYING REBELS
