The Slippery Slope

Blair pushes for 90-day detention

Tony Blair says he still backs plans to allow police to hold terror suspects for up to 90 days, adding there were "hundreds" of such people in the UK.

He said he believed the evidence backed 90-day detention and said he had not changed his mind since losing a Commons vote on the issue last year.

But the prime minister, answering questions e-mailed to Downing Street, still hopes to "proceed by consensus".

Why am I not surprised that the British government wants to have another go locking people up without trial for 90 days, no wonder they have been hyping terror scares lately, try and frighten the populace enough so they'll meekly accept 90 days detention without trial and its no good saying 'if you have nothing to hide then you should support this', because that won't protect you when you are arrested on conspiracy charges, you have to realize this law will effect everyone, not just those 'brown people', stop thinking that this law does not apply to you.

Its quite simple, if you have evidence of wrong doing then prosecute and lock the terrorist up, if you don't let them go, it makes no sense to hold them in limbo with no trial and not telling them what they are charged with.

In fact the only buffer between us and total NuLab authoritarianism is the Human Rights Act.

We must never surrender our civil liberties. I'd rather live in a slightly dangerous country with freedoms than some perfect police state where every move is monitored.