Did the other shoe just drop across the pond?

[rucky]

I've been waiting for the day Bush called for the active "rooting out" of the "terrorist element" here at home. I didn't think England would be a test market for the clampdown-style facism to come.

Blair's speech this week, followed by the timely death of Robin Cook is making me wonder how this legislating of rhetoric is going to play out on the streets of London (hang the DJ).

The unsettling thing about any anti-terror legislation is that nobody seems to know the legal definition of terrorism. Or if they do, they don't use it in their speeches. And lord knows we've heard the word misued...you don't have to read Ann Coulter to find, well, people like us being accused of being sympathetic to "terrorists."

Is saying that the Iraqi insurgents have the right to defend themselves against foreign occupiers "being sympathetic to terrorists?" I'm afraid the likes of Bush and Blair would and could make that arguement. In england that's a crime, now? Where would they deport me?

Nobody in the media labled Timothy McVeigh or Eric Rudolph as terrorists, although I think they fit the definition just as much as those subway bombers. They're just not brown.

[Tace]

1. This Is My Take, Too -- Domestic Clampdown

There's no doubt the worst is yet to come. Bushco didn't ram through the Patriot Acts for nothing.

[dogday]

2. My opinion only is that I feel London

will eventually deport or intern it's muslim population and we will follow suit. It is going to happen, the question is when. I think London will be the first to do this....

[acmejack]

3. I still think they are biding their time

Until they get an excuse to implement some form of martial law. I really hope I am just a senile old alarmist!

I have no faith in the cabal's commitment to democracy, or at least what now passes for it here in the US of A.

[lonestarnot]

4. Building the new information railroad.

[wli]

5. it's an incremental imposition of martial law

The definition of "terrorism" is literally the whim of the police and the president.

[Just Me]

6. The official definition of "terrorism" could be easily applied,...

,...to the actions taken by the US and UK since both wage violence against innocents for political purposes.