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Okay, this is borderline sick. Just combine "Theresa May, the home secretary, confirmed that she was given advance notice of Miranda's detention as she praised
by bostik 13y ago
Okay, this is borderline sick. Just combine "Theresa May, the home secretary, confirmed that she was given advance notice of Miranda's detention as she praised the police action [...]" with "Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the former Labour lord chancellor who was involved in introducing the anti-terror legislation used to detain Miranda, said the police had no right to detain him under the Terrorism Act 2000."
Let me paraphrase that a bit.
The police: "Hey guys, we're going to abuse the anti-terror laws and intimidate a highly visible journalist and his family. This might be illegal."
The police oversight body: "Who cares?"
The UK home office have effectively announced that they are not doing their job. Even when expressly told in advance that the police will break the law in a very visible way, they choose to ignore it.
That must be either gross negligence or crass incompetence.
[Quick edit: italics]
- dragonwriter 13y ago> That must be either gross negligence or crass incompetence. Deliberate malfeasance requires neither negligence nor incompetence.
- dTal 13y ago1) Where on Earth did you get the idea that the job of the Home Office is police oversight? That would be the IPCC. The Home Office has been the home of Big Brother in the UK for some time now. 2) It's doubtful whether they broke the law. That's part of the issue, the law has been badly mutilated to the point where it is legal to harass people without any suspicion of wrongdoing. It's lovely and considerate of Lord Falconer to condemn what he has enabled, but unfortunately it accomplishes bugger all. It's not as if this wasn't foreseen and protested at the time, so such cries of "oh but THAT's not what we had in mind at all!" are at best disingenuous.