May 10, 2006
SERENDIPITOUS UNSERIOUSNESS:
The following two stories just happen to appear consecutively in tonight's e-mail edition of the Times of London:
Freed rapist murdered woman as officials debated his rights: Concerns over human rights prevented officials from properly supervising a rapist who went on to kill a mother of one while on parole, a report has said(Richard Ford, 5/11/06, Times of London)
Attorney-General condemns Guantanamo: Lord Goldsmith made his strongest attack yet on the US detention camp and called for its closure (Frances Gibb, 5/11/06, Times of London)
Can't you just imagine what Churchill would have done to anyone who proposed freeing poor misguided Rudy Hess?
MORE:
900 terrorist suspects in Britain leave MI5 and police unable to cope (JAMES KIRKUP, 5/11/06, The Scotsman)
THERE are now so many terror suspects in Britain that the police and security services are unable to monitor them all, counter-terrorist officials have warned.Posted by Orrin Judd at May 10, 2006 11:34 PM
Advert for scotsman.com Rosslyn vodcastThe Scotsman has learned that anti-terrorism police and MI5 have identified as many as 900 people in Britain whom they suspect could be linked to potential terrorist plots.
Churchill: "So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."
Their foreign policy: coddling terrorists. Their domestic policy: coddling criminals.
Can't you just imagine what Churchill would have done to anyone who proposed freeing poor misguided Rudy Hess?
Yes, I can imagine and good just to think about it. Back then the Brits were made of sterner stuff.
But,that was then and this is now. If he were alive today he would probably commit suicide, or flee to the US and call due on that honorary citizenship.
Posted by: Tom Wall at May 11, 2006 7:48 AM