[jambutty]

Although you cannot put a price on freedom it is right that if someone is arrested and imprisoned and then released without charge, that person should be compensated for amongst other things – loss of earnings or job, being incarcerated without just cause and for hurt feelings.

What is wrong is that this proposed compensation doesn’t come into effect until day 29.

What is even more wrong is people being arrested and incarcerated on suspicion alone.

Once upon a time if a copper was to arrest someone he had to have some evidence that a crime had been committed. The evidence may well have been flimsy but it had to be there.

I don’t know when things changed but when a copper makes an arrest these days he states something like, “I am arresting you on the suspicion of…….” The operative word there being “suspicion”.

Slowly but surely we are sleepwalking into a police state and many people seem to agree to it happening.

The government is crying wolf again.

To put things into perspective you are much more likely to be killed by a car, or a building collapsing on top of you, or being mugged in the street, or being burgled than you are being blown up by a terrorist.

How many people have been killed by a terrorist act in the UK during the last 10 years? How many people have met violent deaths by other means during that time? Please don’t bring the IRA into the equation. They were different times then and this is now.

Wasn’t the proposal originally 56 days and the government backed down to 42 days?

garinda – you are beginning to sound like a cracked record continually repeating the same point over and over.

You keep on spouting about how many people have been killed by terrorist acts. Doesn’t that say that the police and MI5 weren’t doing their job by not identifying the criminals before they could act?

All you people who are arguing that the detention period WITHOUT CHARGE should be extended to 42 days would have a totally different view if it were you who were arrested.

Or is it a case of it’s OK to have these Draconian laws for others but not you?

Finally, your contribution steeljack is not relevant to this discussion. We were at war with Germany at that time after we declared war on Germany. We did as any country would do and that is round up all people that had a connection with the country that we were at war with and put them where they could be kept an eye on, (The Isle of Man) to prevent any possible 5th columnists developing. Proven agitators were quite rightly imprisoned. But they were PROVEN agitators. Those on the Isle of Man, led an almost normal life. They had schools, hospitals, centres of entertainment and could move around at will within a very large and clearly defined area.