Reid urges human rights shake-up

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Reid urges human rights shake-up

John Reid has split the Home Office to help combat terrorism
Home Secretary John Reid has called for human rights laws to be rewritten to protect people against terrorism.

This sounds kind of familiar! now where have we heard this before.
Lets protect the people by taking away their rights..you know its for your own good....Trust us We know what's best for you......

When are people going to wake up to this and realise that soon we will have no rights left. This country is getting scarier by the day.

[Sinclair]

Reid should sort his own house out first:

THE teenage nephew of Home Secretary John Reid has walked free from court after being convicted of possessing two deadly weapons in public.

Glasgow Evening Times 10/5/07

More analysis on the subject by the Antagonist here

[James C]

They are reducing our rights to counter the social backlash that will result from the forthcoming energy crash. Peak oil will take the (western) world and its economy into a new direction and not a nice one for the majority of us. As interest rates, inflation, energy prices, food prices and motoring costs soar and employment levels, house prices, stock market values and pension funds tumble, there will be a major revolt by the population in this country. The government knows this and is preparing strict measures in order to cope. Remember the riots during Thatcher's reign? These will be minor compared with what we can expect to see and swift resolution will be sought by the PTB. It's just a shame that the government cannot admit that we have a massive energy problem ahead, especially as our own north sea oil & gas will be 75% depleted within the decade. At least some of the newspapers have been discussing this subject. Heck, even the Daily Mail has started talking about it.

[Disco_Destroyer]

I Urge John Reid Shake Up!!

[Disco_Destroyer]

They are reducing our rights to counter the social backlash that will result from the forthcoming energy crash. Peak oil will take the (western) world and its economy into a new direction and not a nice one for the majority of us. As interest rates, inflation, energy prices, food prices and motoring costs soar and employment levels, house prices, stock market values and pension funds tumble, there will be a major revolt by the population in this country. The government knows this and is preparing strict measures in order to cope. Remember the riots during Thatcher's reign? These will be minor compared with what we can expect to see and swift resolution will be sought by the PTB. It's just a shame that the government cannot admit that we have a massive energy problem ahead, especially as our own north sea oil & gas will be 75% depleted within the decade. At least some of the newspapers have been discussing this subject. Heck, even the Daily Mail has started talking about it.

Or mass realisation of Truth ie. Us

[blackcat]

We have enough coal reserves in the UK to supply us with all our energy needs for hundreds of years. We also have the technology to burn it clean and at a price competitive with oil at its current price of $60 per barrel. Most people do not realise that we still get (currently) 50% of our electricity from coal burning power stations or that the vast majority of the coal we burn is now imported. My local newspaper (see link below) reported just a few days ago that the government is investigating re-opening mines in this area!!! They should never have been closed.

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/viewartic ... id=2867274

[Disco_Destroyer]

We have enough coal reserves in the UK to supply us with all our energy needs for hundreds of years. We also have the technology to burn it clean and at a price competitive with oil at its current price of $60 per barrel. Most people do not realise that we still get (currently) 50% of our electricity from coal burning power stations or that the vast majority of the coal we burn is now imported. My local newspaper (see link below) reported just a few days ago that the government is investigating re-opening mines in this area!!! They should never have been closed.

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/viewartic ... id=2867274

I have thought about this recently and can personally conclude that it was done deliberately to fuel our nation in the future when other sources have dried up! The way I see it is we still are the Bullies of the former (and current) Great British Epire.

[James C]

We have enough coal reserves in the UK to supply us with all our energy needs for hundreds of years. We also have the technology to burn it clean and at a price competitive with oil at its current price of $60 per barrel. Most people do not realise that we still get (currently) 50% of our electricity from coal burning power stations or that the vast majority of the coal we burn is now imported. My local newspaper (see link below) reported just a few days ago that the government is investigating re-opening mines in this area!!! They should never have been closed.

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/viewartic ... id=2867274

First of all, you have to wonder why these mines are being opened again, secondly, it takes a lot of energy to convert coal into oil and a lot of coal to obtain the equivalent of one barrel of oil. Put simply, we would exhaust our coal reserves very quickly if coal had to satisfy all our energy needs and it certainly wouldn't last for a few hundred years.

World coal output is likely to peak within 20 years. As for the UK, coal could/will help us for a few decades but it won't replace the hole left by oil. If peak oil is happening now or even if it doesn't happen for another 10 years the chances of the UK coal industry re-establishing itself fast enough is unlikely.

Incidently, over 40% of our electricity comes from burning natural gas and our own north sea reserves will be all but gone within the decade. Don't worry though, we're not going to leave Afghanistan overnight where the new Caspian Basin gas pipe is being built to take gas to Pakistan ready for shipment as LNG to the US and UK, (which is why Pakistan is such an ally what with all the gain it will make in funding and infrastructure support promised in return).