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> Flour bomb attack is a 'wake-up call' for Commons security
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news
> 20/05/2004
>
> MPs have been warned that the "old-fashioned culture" of security in
> the Commons will have to go in the wake of the flour bomb attack on
> Tony Blair.
>
> The Leader of the Commons, Peter Hain, said that the incident, in the
> middle of Prime Minister's questions, had come as a "very dramatic
> wake-up call" for the House authorities.
>
> Mr Hain confirmed that he would be meeting the deputy director general
> of MI5 to discuss a major revamp of security procedures in Parliament
> in the light of the events.
>
> He said that MPs would have to accept that public access to the Palace
> of Westminster would, in future, have to be much more tightly
> controlled.
>
> "Frankly there has been a very old-fashioned culture around the House
> of Commons for far too long, not just from many of the authorities
> involved, but also from MPs," he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
>
> "Everybody wants to be in touch with voters - voters should still be
> allowed to come into Parliament and guests allowed - but we are living
> in a very different world, a world of suicide terrorists, not a world
> in which these things didn't exist."
>
> The security review will look at claims that Michael Martin, the
> Speaker, breached security protocols by clearing the chamber instead
> of sealing it in case the powder was poisonous.
>
> It will also assess procedures for allocating places in the public
> gallery, after it emerged that seats intended for members of the Lords
> and their guests had been occupied by protesters who bought tickets
> from the Labour peer Baroness Golding in a charity auction.
>
> Scotland Yard's Anti-Terrorism Branch is carrying out an investigation
> following the arrest of two men aged 50 and 36 on suspicion of
> criminal damage.
Hahaha........ So its not called "public mischief" anymore? They have to
raise it to some 'nonsensical legal gibberish' so they can make any civil
disobedience fit their ever widening "terrorist" bogeyman net?
These guys are living in fantasyland if they think they can safe-guard
themselves from every serious attack... If someone wants em, they will get
em..... even a total police state can't stop everything....
Maybe their best defence is to get back to their jobs of preserving OUR
rights and liberties..... rather than stepping deeper into the mire of nanny
state paranoia, fear mongering and lies? That is only going to make things
worse.....
> "Surely it would have been a victory for terrorism if that attack
> yesterday had been ricin or anthrax and had killed both frontbenchers
> and large numbers of MPs, as indeed the intelligence I received last
> summer indicated a threat existed."
Perhaps it will be, if they keep preaching their narrow-sighted socialist
cultish dogma that "law" is a creation of the "relative force and
intimidation" one can oppress peaceful individuals with.... Pure
garbage!!!!!!
There are actually several people *in this NG* promoting the idea that "law"
does not derive from our inalienable rights, but is [they claim] the product
of ones potential violence over others, whenever one wishes to exert any
order of their creation; everything is *lawful*, they say, as long as you
have the brute force to enforce it. [Given the attitude of government
appointed "judges" and other thugs in making legislation that infringes our
inalienable rights with ever increasing frequency, we really need to keep a
close watch on such people.....]
> ["Tightly Controlled" being a euphamism for a 'closed chamber' away
> from the public gaze and with camera which can be switched off when
> necessary, oops.... if such were ever to eventuate, we can no longer
> have any pretensions about being a democracy - elections or not.]
Most socialist dullards define 'democracy' as the exertion of force of a
majority on a minority....... Which, in the case of Canada, is actually even
reversed, given our system of manufactured majority. They can't seem to
grasp that democracy is about protecting fundamental human rights, not
voting once every four or five years from a choice of two or three tyrants.
[This stuff really freezes up their brains, til the only thing that comes
out is a personal attack, massive brain fart or some other utilitarian
stench-bomb.]
Anyone of sound mind still think we don't need a revolution to the political
system of this country? Still waiting for their branding irons to glow
before you take action?
Direct democracy and separation from the federal government is a step in the
right direction for those of us in BC and Alberta.....
http://www.westcan.org
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