Comments on: No Justice for North West 10 http://manchestermule.com/article/no-justice-for-north-west-10 News with a Kick Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:42:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael P http://manchestermule.com/article/no-justice-for-north-west-10/comment-page-1#comment-703 Michael P Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:15:00 +0000 http://themule.info/?p=400#comment-703 The government's anti-terror strategy over the past 9 years or so has been to subvert the normal processes of the criminal justice system and in effect create a quasi-criminal system for pursuing alleged terrorists. This is operated not by an independent judiciary but by the political executive. And as we see, people against whom no charges are brought - or even a disclosure of the evidence against them - are detained without any real controls or safeguards. Control orders are a hybrid civil-criminal instrument which have been at the forefront of this. Whilst it is true that vast numbers of people are not held under COs (around 20 at the moment I believe), this does not detract from the fact that internment is happening today in the UK. Hopefully the recent decision of the law lords will force the government to withdraw some of these insidious measures. However we cannot rely on such an inherently conservative institution to defend our civil liberties, nor on a subjugated parliament. Grassroots action is the only way to force change. A good documentary to watch on this is 'Taking Liberties' (2007) The government’s anti-terror strategy over the past 9 years or so has been to subvert the normal processes of the criminal justice system and in effect create a quasi-criminal system for pursuing alleged terrorists. This is operated not by an independent judiciary but by the political executive. And as we see, people against whom no charges are brought – or even a disclosure of the evidence against them – are detained without any real controls or safeguards.

Control orders are a hybrid civil-criminal instrument which have been at the forefront of this. Whilst it is true that vast numbers of people are not held under COs (around 20 at the moment I believe), this does not detract from the fact that internment is happening today in the UK.

Hopefully the recent decision of the law lords will force the government to withdraw some of these insidious measures. However we cannot rely on such an inherently conservative institution to defend our civil liberties, nor on a subjugated parliament. Grassroots action is the only way to force change.

A good documentary to watch on this is ‘Taking Liberties’ (2007)

]]> By: andyb http://manchestermule.com/article/no-justice-for-north-west-10/comment-page-1#comment-702 andyb Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:01:16 +0000 http://themule.info/?p=400#comment-702 This all seems pretty similar to the case of Hicham Yezza see www.freehicham.co.uk when the government cock-up their terror charges against innocent people, they try and deport them to spare their blushes. This all seems pretty similar to the case of Hicham Yezza

see http://www.freehicham.co.uk

when the government cock-up their terror charges against innocent people, they try and deport them to spare their blushes.

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