Tag: terror
Terror law is attack on all our freedoms, says spy writer Le Carré
Spy novelist John Le Carré has criticised the Government for ‘stripping’ away British civil liberties due to the threat of terrorism.
The 76-year-old author and former MI6 agent, who rarely speaks publicly, slammed ministers for voting to extend the 42-day limit that terror suspects can be held without charge.
Le Carré, who admitted he had been labelled an ‘angry old man’, said: ‘Partly I’m so angry that there is so little anger around me at what is being done to our society, supposedly to protect it.
‘We have been taken to war under false pretences, and stripped of our civil liberties in an atmosphere of panic.
‘Our lawyers don’t take to the streets as they have in Pakistan. Our MPs allow themselves to be deluded by their own spin doctors, and end up believing their own propaganda’
Hillary Clinton’s Monstrous Threat
Tough guy Hillary Clinton, on the morning of a critical primary vote in Pennsylvania, uttered a monstrous threat, saying on ABC’s “Good Morning America program today that if Iran were to launch a nuclear attack on Israel while she was president, “we would be able to totally obliterate them.”
Think about that a moment! A country that we view as a theocracy, run dictatorially by a bunch of self-appointed religious fanatics, whose rule is enforced by an army of equally fanatic quasi-military thugs and enforcers, launches an attack on America’s ally Israel, and Clinton says her response would be to incinerate the people of that country–people who are as powerless to stop such an attack as would be the people of Israel or the United States.
Police too rough on noisy son, parents insist
The parents of a 10-year-old boy who was handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a police cruiser for being too noisy intend to file a complaint against Ottawa police today, alleging that at least one officer went too far in the way he treated their son.
Thomasz and Santana Gurzynski say police drew their firearms before entering their Norberry Crescent apartment and scratched the back of their son, Lucasz, while forcing him to sit down for questioning without an adult present.
Germany to Allow Video Surveillance of Private Homes
Changes proposed to the law governing Germany’s federal criminal police operations would allow investigators to use wire taps and surveillance cameras in homes of innocent citizens to keep tabs on terror suspects.
Under the government proposals, federal police would be permitted to install “hidden technical equipment, that is to say bugs or cameras inside or outside apartments … if there is a pressing danger for state security,” interior ministry spokesman Stefan Paris said at a news conference on Friday, April 18.
