Originally posted by Bagpuss
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The concern comes because a Brazilian electrician was shot as a terrorist because the police got it wrong.
A crowd of protestors were arrested as terrorists when waving free Tibet flags at the Chinese ambassador.
Agreed this new rule requires a burden of proof to be provided and that is a good thing, but this is in effect a fishing licence for the police and home office. If they have suspicion then they should arrest and charge the suspect who could then start to prepare a defence with legal representation.
As for your other point about means and will, there are any number of posters on here (let alone general members of the public) who have expressed an urge to stab/shoot/blow up or maim any number of politicians, footballers or other posters. The police are not beyond taking such harmless threats and making them full terrorist threats, particulalry if you happen to have a bottle of peroxide and some encrypted data on your pc. I do not trust the Police to get it right, nor do I trust the legal system and the Government to get it right.
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