Have The Police Really Caught Anyone?

I don't know, I am a cynical old fart at the best of times but the police swoops don't add up. Of course they are under immense pressure to arrest somebody, anybody - just like they were with the IRA. It's telling that none of the arrests have been charged with anything. They are just being held under the terrorism act. Which is soon going to be 3 months. If they have enough gumpf to arrest then surely they can charge, even a minor charge of being in charge of explosives would keep them on remand for months...but they are not even doing that. If they charge them with anything they can detain them until trial. None of this stops them charging with more seious events later.

In ten years time are we going to have scenes like the Birmingham six being released? Fabricated evidence, unreliable witnesses and forced confessions? Maybe the police have improved since then but I don't think they have a clue at the moment, the killing at Stockwell tells me that. They are no closer to preventing a terrorist attack now than they were on the 6th of July. Blair knows that, they all know that, but the public would rather see the Police rounding people up than three weeks later saying, "we don't have a clue" and shrugging their shoulders, what level of public confidence would that instill?

The thing is they have there people know, they have pretty much told the public these are suicide bombers, how can they now let them go - even if they are innocent. How more incompetent does that make them look? There are not that many smart people in the police force, I mean 'really' smart people. There are not that many smart people in civil service or government either. The irony of all of this is the terrorists aren't that smart either. Whicever way you analyse it, the dumb chasing the stupid is not very clever.