Scary title, but the article contains some insights into various powers of the Home Secretary and some case studies of individual alleged “extremists”. the description of Obama’s weekly meeting on who is going to die next is reminiscent of Stalin at his creepiest. It’s all rather Wild West…Wyatt Earp gone high tech. Once these procedures have been in place for a while, it will be very difficult to return to something we can call “normal”. Bin Laden continues to undermine democracy from beyond the grave.