Britain - Terrorists Rights vs Our Rights

The BBC reports on how human rights groups are busy undermining EU attempts to increase new security measures.

Europe's security body, the OSCE, is to hold a meeting in Vienna focusing on the need to respect human rights in the fight against terrorism.

Human-rights experts and government officials from member countries will be discussing how to provide security without diminishing civil liberties.

Would one of those human rights experts be Amnesty International, who studiply compared Guantanamo, where no one has died, to the Soviet Gulag where millions died?

Clarke's response is appropriate.

"I argue that it is a fundamental civil liberty of people in Europe to be able to go to work on their transport system in the morning without being blown up and subject to terrorist attack," he said.

And it's not just the peaceniks that are trying to undermine these efforts.

And the former deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, John Stalker, said he did not believe the new measure would make any difference.

"I don't think that there's anything that politicians at the moment can do that would make the work of anti-terrorist squads any easier," he told BBC Two's Newsnight.

Maybe there is a good reason he is "the former" DCC.

Here are some of the measures they agreed to that PC Plod thinks won't help.

Sharing more information on lost and stolen explosives

Tackling terrorist finances, including new laws on wire transfers of money and measures against money laundering

Ensuring common standards for those countries with identity card schemes

A new effort to stop the recruitment of potential terrorists.

Now, look at your calendar. What year is this? 2005 right? That's four years since 9/11 and Europe still has not implemented these measures - the mind boggles.

I'd like to know the details on how they plan to tackle the last one. here is what America has done in this regard. Here is how the BBC characterize Timimi's conviction.

A US Islamic scholar has been sentenced to life in jail for urging Muslims to join the Taleban in Afghanistan and fight US troops after the 9/11 attacks.

They weren't "urged" they were recruited. Be sure to follow the link and read the BBC's whitewash of Timimi's conviction as it shows why the BBC are part of the problem.

Also, be sure to read The Case Against the BBC.
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