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| UK Has Prepared Emergency Plan to Instantly Deport Moslem Fanatics |
| 2004-05-04 |
| Muslim extremists face instant arrest and deportation if Britain is hit by a terror attack, it emerged last night. First out will be rabble-rousing cleric Abu Hamza followed by a dozen other known fanatics. Emergency powers have been drawn up to bypass long-winded appeals, sources revealed yesterday. Judicial reviews â used by lawyers to drag out appeals â will be axed. Asylum claims will be fast-tracked and rejected where appropriate. And judges who put human rights ahead of national security will be bypassed. But there is little chance of the new powers being rushed through Parliament until AFTER terrorists commit an outrage â which is now seen as inevitable by police and MI5 chiefs. The current law is in sharp contrast to France, which acts to expel extremists within DAYS. It has already sent five hate-filled Islamic clerics packing so far this year. A top Government source said: âIf France can do it, so can we. There is a very strong case for this. But it will mean big changes in the law.â A highly-placed figure close to the PM admitted it would be hard to act before an atrocity. He said: âThe judges who are now in place came into the law in the 1960s and take a very literal view of the Human Rights Act. âThey automatically refer cases to appeal rather than risk an infringement of human rights.â Ministers are also reluctant to deport anyone who might face the death penalty. But there are fears of public fury if trouble-makers like Hamza are left to spew out propaganda after an attack. British-born suicide bombers involved in terror attacks in Israel have been linked to Hamza. And there are claims he incites impressionable young UK Muslims to carry out suicide bombings in Britain. He has used a string of expensive appeals, paid for by taxpayers, to drag out moves to expel him to Egypt where he faces terror charges. Lawyers argue that he risks the death sentence there. The Government blames Tory and Lib Dem peers for blocking fast-track deportation measures in the new Asylum Bill, now before Parliament. A Tory party spokeswoman claimed yesterday that the âcatch-allâ clause was too sweeping. But she added that the Conservatives would back powers to âdeport foreign nationals judged to be a risk to public securityâ. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #8 I can't see that happening under the current government and if it does the Tipton Taleban should be up on the gallows with him - Far more fun to stick Hook in solitary and forget about him. There was a Jamaican born Imam who recently received a moderate custodial sentence (8 years??) in the UK for advocating the murder of Jews and Christians. Why hasn't Hamza received similar? Could he secretly be 'talking' as Abu Qatada supposedly is? |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-05-05 7:33:39 AM |
| #7 There may be a time when it becomes necessary to execute people like Hamza. It's not something I'd support lightly, but I'd rather if their crimes were serious enough, they were executed here rather than deported to an uncertain fate. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-05-05 6:52:29 AM |
| #6 I hear Barlinney has luxurious cells and wonderful slopping-out facilities. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-05-05 6:10:55 AM |
| #5 Indeed. If you come here to shout "death to UK/USA/western civilisation", and the moment the death actually comes to your named victims, the government wraps you in a blanket and swifts you away to sunnier climes, I think the population has a right to be very, very angry. They're angry enough already, and molly-coddling the enemies in our midsts won't do the government's credibility any good at all. I don't agree with example-setting punishments per se, but simply chucking them out would send out a very bad, very soft, message to their dim-witted followers left behind. Make these scum stay in the UK where they can enjoy a well-earned cell in HMP Olde Victorian, and the eternal gratitude of the locals they crawled here to despise. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-05-05 6:04:23 AM |
| #4 Well said, Bulldog. It's great that we have to wait until an atrocity is committed - sure makes me feel safe on the tube on the way to work. It's only through stirling intelligence work by MI5/6 that we haven't had one yet. Hamza et al. should be locked up now - not merely deported to a sympathetic regime where they can start subversive activities again. This strikes me as a 'throw away the key' job until he apologises for his vitriol. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-05-05 5:18:07 AM |
| #3 Deportation's way too lenient for people who are judged to have incited the attack that would have already taken place. This must surely be an effort to protect enemies of the state, from ugly violent reprisals, just as much as it is to remove them for the threat they themselves pose. Abu Hamza has said and done enough already to warrant his lengthy imprisonment followed by deportation. These scum come to the UK to subvert it. And all we'll do about it is throw them out (to somewhere that won't treat 'em too badly), only after an atrocity they actively encouraged? Good grief! If these aren't fifth columnists, I don't know who is. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-05-05 5:10:25 AM |
| #2 God, if only the US will follow suit! |
| Posted by: Anonymous4617 2004-05-05 1:08:05 AM |
| #1 Good trial balloon. |
| Posted by: Mr. Davis 2004-05-04 11:27:09 PM |