Clint Sharp wrote:
In message , Tanner-'op
writes

Sent via SMTP - but anonymous remailers will hide the IP number as
well - as aioe.org is hiding yours.

Not by choice though, Demon's news is borked at the moment so needs
must.

Nah! It's the 'whip' system and the 'carrot' of a nice ministerial
job with all the perks that make most MPs follow like a load of
sheep.

I'd say the promise of unpaid directorships and consultancy work
turning into paid work more so but you're probably right.

When I e-mail my MP, I always give my name and address -
So did I.

As for "anything of vale", it contained a copy of the act as
supplied by the Home Secretary.

No comments on his position then?

Not from my MP no, and the Home Secretaries was obvious!

A little cynical - but that's exactly my feelings (except that I
don't want any more of my earnings or rights eroded by them).

Getting more cynical the more attention I pay to politics and I don't
want any more of my money going to them either.

There is adult in this country who can honestly say "they have
nothing to hide" - although the "Gitmo" trip would be a little
drastic for "forgetting" a password - although anything is possible
since the so "one-way extradition treaty" between us and the US.

Getting shot seven times for being Brazilian in the vicinity of a tube
station is a little extreme too.

We're of a differing opinion here. My view was at the time, and still is,
that they (the police) were in between the proverbial rock and a hard place
here with Jean Charles de Menezes.

In view of the situation at the time (and we weren't there) they could not
take any chances and allow a *suspected* terrorist to create carnage again
within a few days - damned if they did and damned if they didn't - and I
certainly wouldn't have liked to have been in their shoes to make that
decision.

I suspect I stand more chance of being gang raped by a coach load of
playboy bunnies and then getting five numbers and the bonus ball on
the lottery than getting injured in a terrorist incident.

Although I'm fairly sure I'd prefer the first, I'm pretty sure I can
walk the streets safe in the knowledge that both are highly unlikely.

I agree, but I must admit that at my age, I'd rather take my chances with a
terrorists bomb than being "gang raped by the Playboy bunnies" - I'd have
more chance of surviving. LOL

Tanner-'op