90 Day detention without trial or charge

okay, loads of hyperbole about this at the moment, and thank god it was defeated, but this is classic authoritarianism. PM says "Oh, scary monsters at large, I need total power to defeat them"

I'm not sure that's even true, there are alternatives, like using intercept evidence in court, lesser charges etc, but the really scary thing about this ain't the bombers, it's Clarke, Blair et al. The great unwashed (80% support for this policy) seem to miss the fact that the cops would have power to jail them !! not just islamic types.

And you think the cops wouldn't misuse this power? Just ask Walter Wolfgang the old boy who was arrested under the terrorism act for heckling.