Charles Clarke to replace detention without trial with… er… detention without trial
Wasn’t it a political masterstroke for Charles Clarke to announce his ‘solution’ to the Law Lords’ ruling (that detention without trial is in fact illegal) in the same week as the Auschwitz liberation anniversary? His fantastic, totally-non-illegal plan basically boils down to ‘we’re still going to imprison you without trial but its going to be in your own house so that you have to pay for the upkeep not the government.’
The Blair-loving media as usual didn’t pick up on that minor technical point, preferring instead to show pictures of the big-eared one droning on to a near-empty parliament. Let me just draw a comparison: when terrorists kidnap people who disagree with them, its called terrorism. When the Blairites kidnap people who disagree with them, its called anti-terrorism. Explanations? WHAT EXPLANATIONS, WHERE ARE YOUR PAPERS TERRORIST?