It has emerged that two of the suspected terrorists arrested last week on suspicion of conspiring to kidnap and behead British Soldiers have been released without charge. The men say that in the week they were held in custody they were only interrogated for a total of around four hours each and neither was asked anything about kidnapping or plots involving British military personnel. Lawyers will apply to the court today for the release of all the other suspects, none of whom have been charged with anything.
What the case has done is pump up hysteria about terrorism. We now hove Government a security services "sources" each blaming the other for supplying dodgy intelligence while the Home Office and West Midlands police point fingers at each other regarding the leaking of the story to the press.
Now it is well known that the Government's policy on law and order relies heavily on spreading fear and panic and promoting pognophobia.
Swarthy looking blokes with beards are terrorist suspects. You must sacrifice your civil liberties if you want us to make you safe in your beds," goes the official line. And of course it strikes a chord because all the baddest bastards in history had beards. Atilla the Hun, Thorfinn Skullsplitter, Ivan the Terrible, Lenin, Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat, Bluto; they all had beards. So its no surprise that the worst any of his neighbours could say of one of the suspects, a quiet, hard working family man, was "he had a long beard and visited a Muslim bookshop frequently.
Well in the current atmosphere of Government sponsored pognophobia what more evidence does anybody need?

(I didn't mention that Jesus had a beard and Hitler didn't because it would spoil the post. I'm just acknowledging that to save anyone the trouble of pointing it out.)