As my fury increases at the disgraceful behaviour of the government I decided to write to my local MP, Conservative member Shailesh Vara, via www.writetothem.com:
Dear Shailesh Vara,
As one of you constituents I am writing to ask you to take in to consideration my views before voting on the new 90 day detention contained in the Terrorism Bill.
I wish to point out that your role is not to rubber stamp Police requests, you sit to employ you own reasoning to arguments put before you. It is with some disgust that I see our Prime Minister trying to push through a serious law based only on emotional blackmail. The Police have put forward few arguments in favour of the 90 day detention. They say that these investigations are complex, well yes they may be, but investigation can be done before during and after both arrest and charge; the difficult of the investigation has no bearing on the point at which a charge is placed. The Police say they do not wish to rush to charge yet are happy to rush to detain. If they are clear that someone may be a threat then I would hope that they have some idea of what it is they are likely to do, if so they can prepare a charge. There is always scope for amending a charge at a later point.
It is not right that we allow people to be locked up “just in case”. We know what a catalyst for anger the detention in Guantanamo Bay is, are we seriously wanting to provoke distrust and anger or should we be looking to apply the freedom and justice we are so keen to promote around the world.
Do not be led by polls, the case has been put in an emotional frame and the public are reacting accordingly, you must look beyond the anger aimed at terrorists and ensure you create a society that will reduce terror not create more. 90 days is wrong, 28 days is wrong, even the current 14 days is wrong.
So please do not give in to emotional blackmail stand up for what is right and rational.
Yours sincerely,
AJ Thomas
5 comments :
perhaps post the reply?
I respect your letter.
Would you like to join the Countryside Alliance and Kate Hoey and articulate my thoughts on the ridiculous law which the government passed last year by using the Parliamentary Act. All this despite complete lack of evidence of benefit to any animal or human, with complete disregard to the views of people involved and affected by the ban.
If I get a reply, I will look to post it. Clementina, I can see that you are more than adept at articulating you thoughts, do try WriteToThem.com .
Well you have already been instantly successful in influencing government voting.
I was not despite marching and peacefully protesting and ....... well you know how the actions were received.
Sadly I was not successful, I did not want 28 days detention, yet my MP voted for it.
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