Police campaign for Internment

It beggars belief. I predicted the assault on the 28 day detention limit on suspects held by police in the wake of the so called terror efforts in Glasgow and London recently. However, it is not to be an attempt to establish 90 days of detention that Blair was aiming for, but INDEFINITE DETENTION of SUSPECTS WITHOUT TRIAL.

Ken Jones, the president of Acpo, told The Observer that in some cases there was a need to hold terrorist suspects without charge for 'as long as it takes'. He said such hardline measures were the only way to counter the complex, global nature of terrorist cells planning further attacks in Britain and that civil liberty arguments were untenable in light of the evolving terror threat...'We need to go there [unlimited detention] and I think that politicians of all parties and the public have great faith in the judiciary to make sure that's used in the most proportionate way possible.'

Try telling that to the people who have been released from Guantanamo and have not been charged with anything nor have they been found to be a threat to this country. Those people were tried and convicted in the tiny racist minds of neoconservative politicians before they even set foot on the shores of Cuba. Despite promising 'checks and balances', this is a proposal for a draconian system that only totalitarian governments would ever use. If the terror threat has evolved to the level where the terrorists cannot do anything more than set fire to themselves, then this argument rather shoots itself in the foot.

Internment has failed before and will fail again if brought in. It is an absolute disgrace that the police should campaigning for internment and other extreme right-wing policies. They should be out applying the law as they are required to rather than playing politics. No wonder many communities have no trust in them. Their faith in the judiciary may be touching but they can shove this idea where the sun don't shine as far as I am concerned.