Proof that the threat is real....

[Jon_in_london]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4433709.stm

This should serve as a lesson to those who claim that the terrorist threat is simply a figment of the politicians' imagination- designed to scare the public into submition.

But one thing I dont understand...... this chap gets life for killing a constable. Fair dinkum.

But only 17 years for plotting the mass murder of thousands of people!?

Our judiciary really do need a good bollock kicking!

 

[username]

But one thing I dont understand...... this chap gets life for killing a constable. Fair dinkum.

But only 17 years for plotting the mass murder of thousands of people!?

Our judiciary really do need a good bollock kicking! [/B]

I dont know squat about the UK criminal justice system, but I suspect it is the legislature rather than the judiciary that is to blame for the sentencing discrepancy. Over here you can do more time for growing a pot plant in your house than for killing or raping a person in some cases.

 

[aerocontrols]

Tell it to the Dutch. They think Samir Azzouz wasn't serious.

The court cannot come to a more far-reaching conclusion than that the suspect had an above average interest in religious extremist violence.

Maybe your guy was just a hobbyist, too.

 

[Underemployed]

From Guardian Unlimited April 14th:

Yesterday's verdicts on five defendants and the dropping of charges against four others make clear there was no ricin ring. Nor did the "ricin ring" make or have ricin.

(...)ricin is not a weapon of mass destruction. It is a poison which has only ever been used for one-on-one killings and attempted killings.

If this was the measure of the destructive wrath that Bin Laden's followers were about to wreak on London, it was impotent.

All the information roads led west, not to Kabul but to California and the US midwest. The recipes for ricin now seen on the internet were invented 20 years ago by survivalist Kurt Saxon. He advertises videos and books on the internet.

This article was written by a key expert witness in the actual court case. Admittedly The Guardian is a commie pinko liberal paper, but unless the article is an out-and-out lie, it seems the case has been blown out of all proportion and misused by the government and most national news sources.