Date published: 2005/03/11
The BBC says:
The marathon debate over new anti-terror proposals has finally ended after more than 30 hours with the government's bill being passed.
The end to the stalemate came after the Conservatives accepted Prime Minister Tony Blair's promise that MPs would be able to review the bill within a year.
The PM denied it was the Tory-proposed "sunset clause in all but name". The bill, which prompted the third longest recorded sitting of the House of Lords, later received royal assent.
Well the UK is now officially a police state. The government can order you to be detained without any real evidence against you other than tattle from the police or the security services. Blair should now be held personally responsible for any terrorist incident in the UK, since this dreadful bill was supposedly required to prevent terrorism, and it will do no such thing. It will just be used to harrass first Muslims, and then other dissidents.
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