Friday, September 22, 2006

Descent into madness

You may remember Jack "Jihad Jack" Thomas was acquitted recently because the evidence collected against him under duress was not admissable in a civilised court. Now Jack is no lilly-white, he went to Afghanistan, trained for something and met Osama, but there is no evidence he was actually planning anything.

Anyway, get a load of the prosecutor's case for retaining the control order and think Catch 22:

"In our submission, something can substantially assist in preventing a terrorist act or something else without the need to show that the terrorist act or the particular conduct is likely to happen or not," he said.

If I could give your Honour an example," he said. "If one is out in the country, and there's a quiet country road, clearly looking right and left will substantially assist in preventing being hit by a car, but there might be a reasonably small chance that this would occur."

Meanwhile, Popbitch leads with this:
"Anyone who describes Islam as a religion asintolerant encourages violence" - Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam.
And No Right Turn has some good stuff on the US secret prisons, torture, desperate search for legal authority gig.

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