[Eeyore]

"London is not a battlefield. Those innocents who were murdered on July 7 2005
were not victims of war. And the men who killed them were not, as in their
vanity they claimed on their ludicrous videos, 'soldiers'.

"They were deluded, narcissistic inadequates. They were criminals. They were
fantasists".

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There is no "war on terror" on the streets of Britain, the most senior criminal
prosecutor, the Director of Public Prosecutions has said.

Sir Ken Macdonald said those responsible for atrocities like the 7 July bombings
were not "soldiers" in a war, but "deluded, narcissistic inadequates" who should
be dealt with by the criminal justice system.

He warned against allowing the threat of terrorism to trigger a "fear-driven and
inappropriate" security response which damaged Britain's traditions of freedom.

In what will be seen as a swipe against government measures, Sir Ken called for
a "culture of legislative restraint" to deal with terrorism.

His comments to members of the Criminal Bar Association put him at odds with
Prime Minister Tony Blair and Home Secretary John Reid, who have justified
tighter security laws on the grounds of the threat posed by a new kind of
terror.

Instead of viewing terrorism as a "war" threatening the very life of the nation,
it should be dealt with as an issue of law enforcement, said Sir Ken, who leads
prosecutors in England and Wales as head of the Crown Prosecution Service.

One of the "primary purposes" of attacks by supporters of international Islamist
terror was to tempt countries to "abandon our values".

He continued: "London is not a battlefield. Those innocents who were murdered on
July 7 2005 were not victims of war. And the men who killed them were not, as in
their vanity they claimed on their ludicrous videos, 'soldiers'.

"They were deluded, narcissistic inadequates. They were criminals. They were
fantasists".

His comments come as a study on attitudes by the National Centre for Social
Research today shows a significant majority of British people believe that some
curbs on terror suspects' civil liberties are a "price worth paying" for
security.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

And here are the comments from the public so far.....

If the perpetrators claim to be fighting a war against their 'own country', I
assume they are British citizens, are then they not guilty of treason?

- W.G. Luck, Reading UK

About time someone had some common sense and said it. The whole war on terror is
nothing but an excuse for politicans to use ever more desperate powers in their
own interests, to quieten dissent, (arrest people under anti-terrorisum laws for
peaceful protest), in there efforts to force even more strict control on the
people of this country. The reason why goverment policies don't make sense is
because they're written to force obedience on us rather than protect us from
terrorists. Congrats to Sir Ken Macdonald for standing up for us.

- Stephen Wright, Braintree

A voice of common sense at last. The last time we heard this was under Thatcher
when the IRA were reduced to a bunch of criminals rather than so called freedom
fighters. Blair gave these Muslim criminals an excuse to try and justify their
actions and subsequently he has used their crimes as an excuse to pass draconian
and unnecessary legislation. As the DPP has hinted at, laws were already in
existence which could have been used more effectively had the political will
been there. The real agenda for these new laws is to allow Blair, Clarke and
Reid to name a few fascists in New Labour, to create a police state in which the
populace can be monitored 24/7 in all their activities.

- Mike, Alicante,Spain

Hurrah for the DPP and some common sense.

By talking of a "war on terror" this simply gives an excuse to the terrorists
who can see themselves as soldiers instead of criminals.

Let's treat terrorists as the criminals that they are. For those with British
citizenship surely it's actually treason?

- Graham, St Albans, Herts


It's a right-leaning newspaper too Scott !

Graham