Review All Anti-Terrorism Laws, say MPs

All counter-terrorism laws passed since 11 September 2001 should be reviewed to see if they are still necessary, says a committee of MPs and peers.

It questioned whether ministers could legitimately argue, nine years on, that a "public emergency threatening the life of the nation" remained.

And it said the government's "narrow" definition of what amounted to complicity in torture was "worrying".'

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Blood & Shadows

Another hundred days spent in the continuing global occupation by the forces of Shadow Governments worldwide: If anything has been changed here by Obama, those decisions served only to increase our problems.

Nothing is new anymore: The body counts around the planet continue to rise as individual 'security' goes up in smoke, while the shadows deepen around whatever anyone had set-aside, to protect themselves in what we used to think of as 'our time of need.'

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Anglers Arrested and DNA Tested by Anti-terror Police for Using Laser Pens to Scare Ducks

Fishing quietly by a lake, Martin Kailus and his middle-aged friends made for an unlikely trio of terrorists. The police, however, begged to differ. To the bemusement of the anglers, ten officers swooped and arrested them under anti-terror laws. They claimed the men were using laser pens to endanger aeroplanes flying overhead.

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Trainspotters Being Stopped Under Anti-terror Powers

Trainspotters are being stopped by police using draconian anti-terrorism powers, it has emerged.

The Prevention of Terrorism Act 2000 has been used to stop 62,584 people at railway stations and another 87,000 were questioned under "stop and search" and "stop and account" legislation.
Liberal Democrat transport spokesman Norman Baker, who uncovered the figures, warned that Britain was heading towards a "police state".

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