Days out
June 11th, 2008
posted by Cptn
As the threat to participatory democracy has never been greater… MPs are getting ready to sit down and decide if the extension of powers to detain people without charge is to be extended from 28 to 42 days.
We thought we bring you a couple of the opinions that have been knocking about. And here’s what we have so far, the Labour contingent of the region’s representation. Ben Bradshaw, Alison Seabeck and Linda Gilroy is towing the party line. Gary Streeter is against it as are Hugo Swire, Angela Browning, and Richard Younger-Ross.
But with our quick trawl of t’internet we couldn’t find the opinion of Adrian Sanders and Anthony Steen, but we don’t reckon they’d be pro the increased incarceration.
Got an opinion. Drop us a line.
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1. g | June 11th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Just a thought but isn’t this more to do with the impact on community relations especially with the Muslim Community. If this legislation was aimed at child molesters would anyone really care?
2. PRSD | June 11th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
We got this press release from Graham Watson MEP, so we figured we’d add it to the debate.
‘As MPs prepare to vote on the Labour Government’s highly controversial plans to extend detention without charge for terrorist suspects to 42 days, local Liberal Democrat MEP for the South West and Gibraltar, Graham Watson criticised the plans.
Commenting today Graham Watson said: “The Government’s plans to demolish our liberties will be a propaganda coup for our terrorist enemies and dodgy regimes around the world. Already Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe is citing UK internment plans as a useful precedent. The Government admit there is no need for this power now, and these misguided proposals appear to be more about making Gordon Brown look strong than making us all safe.”
Graham went on to say: “We should rightly be proud of our traditional British freedoms yet this severely undermines our moral authority as the home of habeas corpus and the Magna Carta. These plans will deeply dismay our European and international friends. Six weeks’ detention without charge will be the longest period in the democratic world. In comparison the period in France is 6 days, Germany 2 days, Spain 5 days, Russia 5 days, Canada 1 day, Turkey 7.5, and even the US only 2 days, so these plans are hopelessly out of line.”
3. PRSD | June 12th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Adrain Sanders sent through the link to his 42 day opinion.
have a gander
http://www. thisissouthdevon. co. uk/displayNode. jsp?nodeId=134844&command=displayContent&sourceNode=134828&c
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