"why do you claim that a government would lock up innocents"
Oh dear - if we really want to go into this:
http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/subsection .asp?id=331
Nearly twelve thousand innocent people were imprisoned in England and Wales last year [nov 2003] for crimes they did not commit.
And that figure does not include people like the Guildford AND THIS IS IN THE UK.
Then we could consider people like Nelson Mandella - a terrorist or freedom fighter - you choose which.
Mahatma Ghandi - would you consider him to be 'innocent'?
I have no problem with locking up terrorists. I do have a problem who are arrested on terrorism charges and held indefinitely with no case brought against them.
Should Walter Wolfgang (rememebr him?) have been arrested on anti terror charges?