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Originally Posted by skunk4u
At the end of the day as far as I'm concerned I don't care about innocent terrorist. I know full well that 'Big Brother' under no circumstance will be watching me. I know there will be no 'House arrest's' as far as me my family and I guess all of CF are concerned.
I admit the whole thing is a scandal but what can the goverment do about? Put there hands up and say sorry we are all wrong lets leave the county in the mess its in and just go?
And as you said your not worried about terrorist. So whats with the bigger target thing?
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Could you define the interesting concept of an 'innocent terrorist'?! Someone who just happens to be Muslim (or sometime ago Irish cf Birmingham Six) in the wrong place at the wrong time, perhaps? As has been repeatedly pointed, out there is no evidence against the Guantanamo captives just released which is why they have not been charged and are not terrorists.
Big Brother is already watching you; the average UK citizen is filmed 300 times a day by CCTV!
The issue of whether we should leave the mess we created in Iraq is an interesting one, but not for this thread.
And yes, of course we face a terrorist threat. That threat has increased as a result of us blundering, illegally, into Irag on the coat-tails of America. But as a parent I do worry much, much more about idiot drivers etc than I do about terrorism. And I certainly do not think victimising people and curtailing everyone's civil liberties is going to reduce that threat one iota. In fact it's likely to have the opposite effect. Certainly didn't work in Northern Ireland. Jury-less trials and detention created martyrs and achieved diddly squat except continuation of hostilities.