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Post by Hunny on May 26, 2013 12:11:23 GMT
Woolwich murder probe: 'Thousands' at risk of radicalisation, says Theresa May Theresa May: "We need to see if there are additional steps we should be taking to prevent radicalisation"Thousands of people are potentially at risk of being radicalised in the UK, Home Secretary Theresa May has said. She also told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that those at risk were at "different points on what could be a path to violent extremism". Mrs May said a new taskforce would look at whether new powers were needed to tackle radicalisation. Three more arrests have been made in connection with the killing of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich. On Sunday, the family of Drummer Rigby visited the scene of his death. Two men already arrested on suspicion of his murder remain in custody in hospital in a stable condition. Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, were shot and wounded by police at the scene in Woolwich on Wednesday after the killing. The Met said counter terrorism officers arrested three men, aged 21, 24 and 28, on Saturday evening on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder - a Taser was used on two of them. Mrs May said "500 officers and others" were working on the case, including counter terrorism officers brought in from elsewhere in the country. She said the government had introduced "a new programme, which is not for those immediately at danger of radicalisation, but for those who are perhaps "further out". Around 2,000 people had been worked with within the last year, she added.
When asked if she would now push ahead with a Communications Data Bill, Mrs May said: "The law enforcement agencies, the intelligence agencies, need access to communications data and that is essential to them doing their job." READ MORE...
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Post by Hunny on May 26, 2013 12:24:45 GMT
Just curious: when she says 2,000 people have been "worked with", doesn't that mean essentially that the government arrived at the conclusion 2,000 people should undergo forced conditioning, after rifling through their drawers, having done nothing wrong? Think about it, everything you have on your computer - mail, banking, shopping, looking through an encyclopedia etc - all used to be done on paper, and had you caught someone going through your drawers, reading your mail and taking pictures of your cancelled checks in the night, following you around - making lists of everything you do, you'd hit them with a frying pan and call the cops. Why then is it okay to look through those things now, just because we've changed from paper to electronic? Why? And don't just parrot "for our safety", because I'll wretch honestly. I mean how far are people mindlessly, spinelessly willing to go to make excuses for the book 1984 becoming reality? When they say everyone should be given an enema before entering the market "for safety", will you just bend over, really? (Oh yea, well don't you already have to remove your shoes and belt and be looked at virtually nude before entering some buildings?)(we do in the U.S.) I can't understand why England - after seeing the Americans go idiotically overboard, opening people's mail and such - would just be copy cats AND PARROTING THE EXCUSES WHY. I don't see it at all. Again, if you're answer is "for safety", don't even offer it. It's just 'monkey see, monkey do', panicking and going overboard; and opportunist politicians slipping things by. I'd like to know what happened to (in the US, it was constitutional protections) protections FROM the government being too invasive and controlling, FROM having basic rights taken away. Why are we not worried about being protected from that?!! Why do we make excuses for their invasive B.S. being carried out in opportunistic increments? (And again, if you're going to parrot the "if you don't have anything to hide..." excuse at me, be glad we're not in the same room!) Why? Why do people stupidly put up with this, and just obediently mimic what they hear and little understand? Here's how it has worked out in the US:www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-surveillance-in-america-drastically-changed-after-911-2012-8
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