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Terror is no new import, so why go for 42 days detention?
Letter to the Prime Minister
• LABOUR governments in power since 1997 have been denigrating all the labour values the Labour Party has been cherishing since its inception and are being deluded by the glamour of imperial power of yore.
Since the invasion of Afghanistan first and then Iraq the laws have been enacted to combat “terrorism” in response to barbaric terrorism of the invading powers. These may be in breach of human rights legislation. Terrorism is no new import to Britain. It has been here all along in some form or another.
The Labour government, backed by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, is insisting on extending the period of detention without charge to 42 days for security’s sake, the security that the Labour government has endangered by its precipitate action all over the world.
One of the anti-terrorist laws enacted by Labour seems to provide for the conviction of a person for not informing the police about the intended terrorist activities even of one’s nearest and dearest. Surely police and governments know very well what happens to many informers.
Any law enforcing anyone to be a murder victim may be in breach of human rights provisions. Perhaps it will be a case for the civil rights organisation Liberty to take up with European Human Rights Commission.
Ramendranath Bhattacharyya
Former Mayor of Camden, NW3
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