As I said the other day, watch the English when they make their minds' up about an enemy. Today's announcements by Blair of severe security measures do not surprise.
The new "rules" will allow for easy deportation of foreign residents in Britain who preach or advocate rebellion and violence.
Existing rules allow the Home Office and the courts to strip naturalized British citizens of their legal status so that they can be deported to country of origin. Blair indicated that those existing "rules" will be modified to make it easier to do so.
Houses of worship are to be closed if there are indications that they are being used as centers of conspiracy against the state.
Wow!! The English have always had a tough streak in them. The "stiff upper lip" covers a lot of internalized hostility. The old joke about the "Wogs Starting at Calais" was never a joke to the French who still remember the atrocities of the Hundred Years War.
It is hard to argue with the British government's logic in this. I expect such measure to spread. Watch Holland. pl