[ccmay]

The first charge alleges that she possessed information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism on her computer hard drive.

Today this nebulous law is used against a Muslim terrorist sympathizer, and we all cheer.

Tomorrow, it could be used to prosecute a Countryside Alliance member with a subscription to the Shooting Times.

We can pursue the war on terrorism vigorously and successfully without resorting to charges of thoughtcrime.

-ccm

[Mrs Ivan]

Tomorrow, it could be used to prosecute a Countryside Alliance member with a subscription to the Shooting Times.

That is an interesting point.

[dcwusmc]

"We can pursue the war on terrorism vigorously and successfully without resorting to charges of thoughtcrime."

We have had all the tools we needed, even prior to the so-called "USA-PATRIOT" act, an abomination if ever there was one. MOSTLY what we need is the motivation to use the tools we have, just as with illegal border crossers, and NOT trash the Constitution any more. Yet now, WE have thought crimes and the Bill of Rights is toilet paper, even more than when it was just being trashed by the war on some drugs. It's not just the Brits anymore...

[livius]

Do you also have a copy of The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook?

[Barset]

How did the authorities discover what was on her computer, and what business is it of theirs anyway? I can't believe the nonsense the West is resorting to for security. Shouldn't there have been some other, more convincing evidence that she is a threat, than her curiosity?