As expected the men arrested on the train now released without charge

Ron | 27.07.2005 22:52 | Anti-racism | London | World

A Lincolnshire Police spokesman said: "Following extensive inquiries during we are now satisfied that the men arrested from the GNER train at Grantham at 11pm last night are not connected to any terrorist activity.

"They have been released from our custody without any charge and the matter is now closed."

I expect the off-duty officers who made the erroneous tip-off are having a great laugh at all the trouble they caused.

The quiet beginnings of Britain's very own Nazi-style kristalnacht carries on apace.

Unless people start doing something about it...

Ron

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silly billy

27.07.2005 23:35

comparing stop & search to Kristallnacht makes you look a tad hysterical and more sadly diminished they horrific acts of the Nazis.

You guys are such a bunch of paranoid drama queens you could get jobs on the script team of Sunset Beach.

magoo

How about...

27.07.2005 23:43

Were the police being nazis when they arrested one of the four attempted bombers in Birmingham? You sound like you hate the police more than the terrorists....strange....

shab

Where?

28.07.2005 02:21

What "terrorists"?

The Government which brought you "Saddam has WMD!!" hasn't proven its Conspiracy Theory yet.

Don't Fall for the PsyOps

How About?

28.07.2005 05:45

Number of people killed by attempted bombers - nil.

Number of people killed by police to date - one, plus another tazered.

Note: tazers are potentially lethal.

Over the years our police have killed many people, if you include custody deaths. There are at the moment 3,000 police armed with machine guns roaming the streets of London and they are shortly to have their massive powers reinforced with yet more repressive legislation.

Outrider

Number of people killed by successful suicide bombers in London:

28.07.2005 08:17

52.

Just a little stat that you missed out. And now you're complaining that the police DIDN'T shoot someone who had threatened to blow them up along with himself.

What, exactly, would you suggest they do? Ask him nicely to stop? Get on the phone to the PM and say "Hey, Tony, if you'd just pull our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and get George to bomb Israel, I reckon this guy might have a sudden change of heart about western civilisation and decide to put his bomb down and come out for a cup of tea"?

Media circus -roll up, roll up!

28.07.2005 08:21

Anyone glancing at the front pages of right-wing tabloids will have noticed how these papers shout triumphantly about any arrests made. It's 'Bomb Plot Foiled!' or 'Police Swoop on Terrorists' or such like. We NEVER see the bold headlines 'Police Got It Wrong Again!' or 'Suspect Released, Having Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Terrorism'. As the widest read rag in the UK is The Sun, the majority of people in this country must actually believe 'we are winning the war on terror', as if the 'war on terror' wasn't terrorism itself.

Flymo to the moon

Outrider

28.07.2005 08:30

Interested to know your alternative------------asking the bombers to refrain politely perhaps?

Maggie

Ah, yes kristallnacht...

28.07.2005 09:15

...which, as we all know, was when the Nazis politely arrested several Jews on German trains, held them for questioning and then released them a day later without charge...........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht

artaud

Wahrheit macht euch frei

28.07.2005 09:28

A. Well said regarding the 52... but I reckon addressing the foreign policy (see state-sponsored terrorism) would eventually have an effect. After all, it's a major recruiting factor in "al qaeda".

Flymo: what is so surprising about the right-wing press' reaction??? They are after all by their nature PRO Establishment. Are you suggesting that there should only be one opinion allowed?

I really do think that with all this carping about media coverage, people here should look at a real oppressive regime before posting. Would we get such gems as 'The Downing Street Memos' or the Kelly Interview or such open derision at Hutton or Shayler or diplomats (*cough* spooks *cough*) leaking info like colanders?

I'm not saying that everything is hunky dory, but they could be a millions times worse.

magoo

"As expected?"

28.07.2005 10:00

"As expected?" As you expected? Please tell us which is it: either you assume the police are incompetent, you assume that they are prejudiced, or you happen to know who the suspects are and know for a fact they're not involved in terrorism.

Now tell us what you'd do instead.

1. Let suspects go about their business for fear of causing them some minor inconvenience. This assumes, of course, you're happy to run the risk that real terrorists will be free to murder and maim.

2. Aggressively prosecute everyone who's arrested despite a lack of evidence. We all know this has happened in the past. Do you think it should happen more often?

3. Investigate the matter as quickly as possible and release suspects who are exonerated.

You probably need to know that the biggest unwritten rule of debate is that the first person to draw a comparison with Nazi Germany in the absence of credible evidence of genocide goes home with egg on their face.

Get a grip, ok?

Zorro