Body & Soul2 mins ago
90 days?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The problem is ''what is a terrorist'' if you are a taxi driver taking some people around (as you might) and they are pulled by the police while in your taxi how do you think the police will decide who to hold for 90 days?? I think it could be everybody involved and this can apply to ANY situation because funnily enough the terrorist's don't carry a board saying "terrorist please arrest me''
If your worried about innocent victims I think you better do something about the numbers of deaths on the UK roads first!
Just a couple of points to think about.
The day to day terrorist threat to this country is blown out of all proportion by the media and government alike just look at the recent front page of the sun (Britains biggest selling newspaper) who says brainwashing doesn't happen!!
The statistic of 80% of gmtv viewers supporting the 90 days is fundamentally flawed. Maybe 80% of the people who phoned in supported it but you would have to do all sorts of demographic studies on thoe who voted and those who didn't (inpossible) to find a reasonable statistic to use in ANY argument.
Some people seem to be under the illusion that when the suspects are released from custody, that we never check up on them again, and that we would have no idea what they were doing. If someone is released after 28 days through lack of evidence and the police and intelligence services still believe they pose a genuine risk, I hardly think that they're going to just let them go. They'll be under constant surveillance etc, and unlikely to be able to continue their 'plotting'. The intelligence service aren't a bunch of bumbling morons.
You can't hold an innocent person without charge for three months. Why not approach it from the other side of the table : give the police more resources so that their investigations don't need to take 3 months.
certain irony in this don't you think?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4427096.stm
He was held for 13 days without charge and it's a major incident
And thats the other part of it, were not talking about people being held for 90 days for having bomb making equipment or 90 days for attempting to detonate a bomb. Those people will be arrested straight away.
It's a case of holding people for 90's with no evidence at all.
Or are there other reasons? What is it that's going to take 90 days?