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Terrorism Law Rejected - For Now

Comment by Larry Ross, November 15, 2005

Blair's bid to allow police to hold terrorist suspects for up to 90 days without charge has failed in Parliament.

If it had been 28 days, or even 60 days the bill might have approved by Parliament according to the following report which also said 64% of the public supported this severe attack on British civi liberties.

These figures show that the majority of UK MPs and public have accepted Tony Blair's lies justifying the UK's support for George Bush's so-called "war on terrorism" and illegal war on Iraq. The Nazi-like tactics used by US and UK forces in Iraq - the false imprisonment, shaming, torture, even murder, and mass bombing using anti-civilian weapons like phosphorous bombs and cluster bombs have caused Iraq to become a breeding ground to create more opposition. Blair and Bush then label this opposition as "terrorist" and twist it to justify continuation of their illegal war.

People have forgotten, disregard or accepted Blair's and Bush's lies accusing Iraq of having weapons of mass destruction, having and/or close to having nuclear weapons, planning to attack the US and/or UK and others, having links with Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, supporting international terrorism, importing nuclear material from Niger, etc. These are well-known and documented lies designed by Blair and Bush to fool their people and parliaments in order to lead their nations to war. This in turn has resulted in British, American and Australian troops directly, or indirectly, supporting the continuing killing and maiming thousands of innocent people. This barbarous slaughter has gone on since 2003, long after the above initial accusations have been revealed as lies created to start the war. Yet the media, M.P.s, Senators and Congressmen, with few exceptions, continue to support this slaughter, pretending that the original lies are still valid.
The U.K. M.P.s expect to be praised for only wanting 28 days detention of suspects instead of 90 days!

Bush and Blair even threatened to use nuclear weapons if Iraq used chemical weapons to defend itself. John Howard of Australia, the media and the majority of people in the U.S., U.K. and Australia had no objection to them taking such a step, based on lies, even though it could lead to the hideous death of their children and themselves in a global holocaust. Surely this shows the power of 'the big lie' technique, applied in our modern democracies by psywar specialists and PR spin-doctors, to easily lead people to their own potential doomsday.

People forget, disregard, or do not understand the significance of the fact that these men, and John Howard of Australia, are war criminals who should be charged and tried before the International Criminal Court. But most people live in a state of media-conditioned ignorance, thus enabling these war criminals to continue leading our Western Democracies.

Deliberately starting a pre-planned illegal war based on using a series of lies for justification, is a very, very serious crime, and defined as such by both domestic and international law and international efforts such as The Nuremberg Tribunal. The perpetrators should be caught and tried before they do more damage. Unfortunately their lies still succeed in fooling enough people and fellow Parliamentarians, to embolden them to continue in office and do more of the same. Anti-terrorism laws in the US, UK and Australia are one way the war criminals have of trying to legitimise and normalise their crimes and creating the legal means of silencing and intimidating their critics. As well, the laws allow wide ranging imprisonment of anyone the government decides should be accused and silenced without charge or trial. Tony Blair must feel very confident that his lies have been accepted and that he can get away with sweeping aside in one stroke, the long process of achieving our civil liberties. Tony Blair is demonstrating how easy it is to convert Britain into a '1984' Orwell state. Although he has been set back on 90 day imprisonment for suspects, the report shows support for a lesser time.
This may be his next objective.

The tactics of Bush and Blair has been to create more terrorism, even civil war in Iraq, to justify their continued presence there and the building of permanent US military bases. A constant flow of more lies is required to justify continued occupation. Opposition actions are defined by the war criminals as 'terrorist incidents', and used by them to justify their own barbarous military action. This continues to worsen the situation in Iraq and stimulate more opposition. Bush, Blair, Howard et al then use these 'terrorist' incidents to justify their initial invasion, continuing occupation and murder of opponents.

The war criminals wont stop as long as people agree to be fooled and agree not to 'connect the dots' to see the obvious. "Endless war" is what Bush promised, and that's what he will deliver, so long as enough people are fooled. The necessary incidents to justify it will likely happen, as the 9/11 attack happened and was used as the basis to create a litany of lies to justify the Iraq war.

It is very clear, that the public needs a massive educational effort by top experts and speakers using every means of modern communication on the truths of our perilous situation. I think that would motivate enough people to stop Bush, Blair and Howard from committing more and perhaps far worse war crimes. Unless quick action is taken we are unlikely to be able stop the deterioration to more wars and worse disasters.

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Blair faces terrorism vote showdown

From The christchurch Press, November 10, 2005

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was due to risk his first major defeat in parliament overnight (NZT) in a bid to allow police to hold terrorist suspects for up to 90 days without charge.

Ministers were forced last week to shelve the same plan when it became clear rebels in Blair's Labour Party were poised to join opposition parties to vote against it in the elected lower chamber, the House of Commons.

As national elections in May slashed Blair's parliamentary majority to 66 - meaning fewer than 40 Labour members can defeat him by voting with the opposition - the vote will be tight and his opponents are standing firm.

"We have consistently said that a 28-day period of detention is the maximum period that we would support," said Michael Howard, leader of the main opposition Conservative Party.       Continue....