[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Oh vicky that is so untrue.

This **** that appeared on the jihadi next door programme, if things had been in place then he would have either been locked up or deported and every single person who died on saturday night and since would all still be alive and enjoying life.

Every single person who died on Saturday would have been alive? There were 2 other people carrying out the attack?

I get what you are saying but I think its a very dangerous route to be going down where, for example someone can be locked up on suspicion of doing something, when they may not have even been doing that if that makes sense? This will affect us all...not just the bad people.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-of-terrorists

Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions who oversaw dozens of terror cases, said Theresa May was misguided to focus on human rights law rather than policing cuts.

“There is no incompatibility between protecting human rights and taking effective action against terrorists,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

“If we start throwing away our adherence to human rights in response to what has happened in the last three months, we are throwing away the values at the heart of the democracy, everything that we say we believe in.”

Starmer said he had never found human rights law a barrier to successful prosecutions of terrorists or those preparing acts of terrorism. “I know because I did it for five years,” he said. “We did not run into the Human Rights Act as a problem preventing successful prosecutions. We put a lot of people away for a very long time.”

This whole human rights thing is simply to take the heat off May about the cuts to security services. Nothing more. Removing human rights would not have lead to the Jihadi guy off the c4 program being jailed or deported. I do however think that MI5 were wrong in their assessment of how dangerous this guy was and as such stopped focusing on him.

In short, I disagree that someone should ever be locked up or deported simply because we think they are planning something. But if there is enough evidence they actually are then of course we should be able to lock them up (preferably in solitary, so they can not radicalize other people in prison) but we can do this already, and do do this already. Intelligence agencies get it wrong sometimes though.