Posted on 08/09/2006 7:24:59 PM PDT by blam
Terrorists are the greatest threat since Hitler, warns Reid
By Toby Helm, Chief Political Correspondent
(Filed: 10/08/2006)
John Reid rounded on judges, politicians and commentators yesterday for failing to grasp that today's terrorists pose the greatest threat to the civilised world since Adolf Hitler.
In his first speech on national security since becoming Home Secretary, Mr Reid said he had already found that those who should be "foremost in recognising the serious nature of the threat just don't get it".
John Reid: 'Migrants can bring great skills'
Portraying himself as a hardliner on security and immigration issues, Mr Reid said Britain was now in constant danger from the same breed of "unconstrained" terrorist that was causing mass bloodshed in Iraq.
Addressing the think tank Demos, he said judges, British politicians and commentators had all failed to realise that liberties enshrined in the 20th century and bolstered after the Second World War could not all remain intact if today's high-tech, global terrorists were to be thwarted.
Ministers had "radically reformed" anti-terrorism legislation since 2000 and passed four new Acts which had helped the police and security services prevent terrorist atrocities.
Yet resistance from the legal, political and media establishment to further moves that would allow suspects to be detained or deported meant "we remain unable to adapt our institutions and legal orthodoxy as fast we need to".
Effective security in a world of open borders, ethnic tension, religious extremism and mass migration required a new level of co-operation between government, public bodies, companies and ordinary people. Even then there was no guarantee that the battle would be won.
Mr Reid added: "Sometimes we may have to modify some of our own freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their misuse and abuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms in the long term.''
Signalling a new strong line on immigration, including an end to the "open door" policy for workers from new European Union states, he said people needed to understand that those who expressed concern about immigration were not racists.
"People recognise that migrants can bring great skills to the UK but they also want to be assured the immigration will be properly managed and our public services and benefits systems protected from abuse," he said.
Well Lief was saying the opposite. I wonder why....
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When I saw the headline I thought for a second, wow the Dems are finally trying to sound tough on the war.
America's Senator Harry Reid is a limp-wristed, purse-swinging, bed-wetting commie-lib, who thinks some of his fellow American's are the greatest threat.
IMO, another threat we face in America are the Liberal appeasing cowards who knowingly choose to ignore the Islamic evil that's knocking at our door. They choose to sacrifice our country, our freedoms, and even our lives in their all-consuming quest to gain power.
Gtrea postthere blam!
Quoted,
"People recognise that migrants can bring great skills to the UK but they also want to be assured the immigration will be properly managed and our public services and benefits systems protected from abuse," he said.
I wonder if in his country, the "BOTTOM TIER" of manual laborers and last-ones-in immigrants will speak out THEIR objections to any Newer so-called, " Great Skilled People "
taking away THEIR Jobs by working Cheaper and Harder?--
--UNLIKE any " Last-Ones-In " Minorities and bottom social/economic cultures/peoples in America
D-I-D-N'T BULK at the Illegal Mexicans and Latinos taking THEIR JOBS Away by working cheaper and for dirt pay?(Maybe they haven't caught on yet they are being sent to the "Back of the Bus " when it comes to getting aid-newer social programs & more money for food, welfare, healthcare, etc..
Doesn't England, France ALREADY have problems with UNEMPLOYED MUSLIM YOUTHS?--roiting and picketing because "..their gov't isn't SUPPLYING them with any entrance or worthwhile paying jobs?
Wonder why we never heard the same from AMERICAN MINORITIES that THEY are being Sold-Out by their OWN Minority LEADERS & Politicians for VOTES!!
Good post--Who will be NEXT in Europe not to realize there will only be more subway bombings, Disco-Bombings, Embassey bombings and social unrest like in America if they DON'T Curtail and regulate their Immigration inflow!
DA
"Signalling a new strong line on immigration, including an end to the "open door" policy for workers from new European Union states, he said people needed to understand that those who expressed concern about immigration were not racists."
To show we aren't racist, we will prevent Poles and Czechs from coming to Britain. What a moron. He is wrong on so many levels I can't even list them here.
Islam represents a greater threat that Nazism and Communism combined.
I'm beginning to think you are correct.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
Knew it wasn't Harry.
Now there is a statement from someone who really "does not get it". Any politician who talks about terrorism without mentioning the radical mosques and madrasses does either not 'get it' or doesn't have the guts to talk about 'it'.
those who should be "foremost in recognising the serious nature of the threat just don't get it".
BumP
How many years it took him to figure this out?
Perhaps he will get the next Nobel Price for this ingenious statement.
The ghost of anti-fascist Winston Churchill exercises its influence.
I totally agree. I remember reading about churchill going around england before ww2 and saying that the germans and the russians were a threat to englands survival. Nobody listened and we saw what came to pass.We cannot trust the left in this country running anything.EVER!
It was a Tory government that sold out Czechoslakia to Hitler. Chamberlain was the equivalent to what we call a "moderate" conservative/
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