What effect will N Korea missile tests have?
Added: Wednesday, 5 July, 2006, 14:52 GMT
"The question that you need to ask yourself is why would anyone wish to bomb Alaska?" tim, Herne Bay

No need to bomb it with the oil companies doing their best to wreck the place. And anyway - one Intercontinental missile takes off, a stream of small missiles follow it, and boom, it falls into the sea. Failed missile test or Strategic Defense Initiative which actually does work?

Should more troops be sent to Afghanistan?
Added: Monday, 3 July, 2006, 20:55 GMT
I have an old picture on my noticeboard of the mujahideen sitting on a dead russian tank, grinning wickedly. These were the people the americans armed against the russians. Now our army is fighting them for the americans. The difference is we probably won't be allowed to see the dead tanks this time. The mujahideen won't care. We shouldn't be there.

Should terror suspects be held longer?
Added: Monday, 3 July, 2006, 15:47 GMT
Don't worry about being compensated for false arrest and missing 90 days off work, they are busy phasing out compensation in case the claims bankrupt them. Why not start building privatised Gulags like the old folks homes that mushroomed in recent years. There must be money to be made in this or they wouldn't be bothering. Bring back Uncle Joe Stalin at least you knew where you were with him.

Should terror suspects be held longer?
Added: Monday, 3 July, 2006, 15:27 GMT
"They should be held indefinately and a news blackout imposed so we don't have to put up with their bleating relatives and sundry bleeding-heart human rights lawyers" Paul, London, UK

Well done Paul, for resurrecting the Nazi practise known as 'Nacht und Nebel', or Night and Fog. Imagine your loved ones missing and no one tells you anything. You didn't give your last name, it's not Pinochet by any chance is it?

How should prisons deal with racism?
Added: Saturday, 1 July, 2006, 09:55 GMT
"I watched an ‘undercover’ TV documentary a while ago filmed inside a prison (I think it was Feltham) where the wardens admitted to playing ‘coliseum’ (gladiator) with prisoners." Jay Furneaux, United Kingdom

I remember this, how come the authorities never watch these programs. I think it's fairly obvious that the warders were enjoying, possibly betting on these confrontations. Incompetence is the stock explanation for police wrongdoing, in my experience.

What are your views on the Israeli action in Gaza?
Added: Thursday, 29 June, 2006, 06:50 GMT
"Thank goodness the Palestinians don't have the same weapons as Israel. I'm convinced they wouldn't be as restrained as the IDF."Helen, Maale Adumim, Israel

It's nothing to do with goodness, you can thank the Americans. How is the behaviour of the Israelis restrained? They have now illegally arrested Palestinian politicians. Helen your people are becoming the Nazis that you abhore. Do something.

What are your views on the Israeli action in Gaza
Added: Wednesday, 28 June, 2006, 06:41 GMT
If any other country behaved like this, the world would surely object to it. How does Israel get away with it? Yes I know the Israelis suffered under the Nazis, but they can't use this as a justification for their cruelty today. They seem to have adopted the Nazis' tactics. By oppressing the Palestinians, they have lost all moral high ground and have become the Nazis themselves. Shame on them. Release the women and children at once please.

Send your footie questions to the Prime Minister
Added: Monday, 19 June, 2006, 18:58 GMT
I remember watching Jackie Milburn from my private box in the Leazes end, as Byron and Shelley brawled with Napoleon and his guards on the concrete steps, while queuing for pies. And another thing Tony, you weren't there.

NAUGHTY NAUGHTY!

I found this picture whilst looking for a pic to add to the previous post. This must be the best picture of all taken during the Miner's Strike. And with the benefit of Hindsight, we can now establish that out of the two 'policemen' at the front of the picture, neither one is a real copper. The one on the left has no numbers on his uniform, indicating either MI5 or more likely forces, possibly a paratrooper. Using troops against citizens eh, naughty Maggie.

Send us your ideas for the new Tory logo
Added: Sunday, 18 June, 2006, 06:58 GMT
"A compass to represent progress in the right direction, a cog to represent support to industry, and a heart to represent compassion." atomjohn LEE, derby, United Kingdom

Er, where does the Miner's Strike fit in that picture?

Should airports be used to transport terror suspects?
Added: Tuesday, 13 June, 2006, 07:01 GMT
"mealy-mouthed hordes of politically correct sheep who are fed a diet of anti-American claptrap." John Acts

I'm criticising the US, John, and I am not mealy mouthed, or politically correct. I'll call a redneck a redneck. I am not fed a diet of news such as your 'Fox News' but glean my news from a variety of sources such as the BBC and ITN. All the news shows your country is becoming a leading fascist state, run by religious extremists.
Torture is the New American Way, buddy.

Should Sir Ian Blair take the blame?
Added: Tuesday, 13 June, 2006, 24:58 GMT
"He is trying to keep the country terror free, and is doing a fantastic job at it. The whole force is only doing their job in trying to protect the Great British people."
Paul Croft, Wakefield

He is filling parts of the country with terror, by shooting the Lesser British Public with impunity.

Should Sir Ian Blair take the blame?
Added: Monday, 12 June, 2006, 19:35 GMT
"Go back where you came from if you don't like it here. If you choose to stay then learn to speak English, get a job and buy a house." Sheik Yerbouti

I was born here, I live here,I work here, as a miner then a teacher, and I own a house here. I speak english and I have opposed fascists all my adult life. Just because we oppose police brutality during this so-called war on terror, doesn't mean we are all muslims, or foreign. I bet we are all anti-nazi though!

Guantanamo suicides: Your comments
Added: Monday, 12 June, 2006, 18:23 GMT
"Those of you crying foul over Guantanamo and these three that committed suicide are of the same mentality that existed in Europe in the 1930's, the reason Europe was pounded by bombs in WW11, millions died in Nazi concentrations camps and Hitler’s boot was all over Europe."
Paul, USA

You're the ones with the bombers, the stormtroopers and the concentration camps, Paul. Why not throw me in prison for saying this? That's the next step.

Release of terror raid pair: Your views
Added: Monday, 12 June, 2006, 07:36 GMT
"The Police ( or should I say the tax payer ) will most likly pay out a stupid amount in an out of court deal." AASA asaAA

These men were snatched with violence from their home, one was shot, they were slandered and illegally imprisoned, and you think that they should bear the financial cost themselves? Shame on you. You know you are wrong , thats why you hide your identity.

Release of terror raid pair: Your views
Added: Saturday, 10 June, 2006, 09:25 GMT
"if people do not want to be protected then they always have the choice to return to their own country. we want this country to be free of threats of any kind...." keith davies, southend-on-sea.

I would love to return to my own country. Thats the one where the police are there to HELP us, we are innocent until PROVEN guilty, and the only place people get shot is on TV. As a British citizen I am outraged by the Americanisation of policing. Can't you see what a threat that is Keith?

Release of East London two: Your views
Added: Saturday, 10 June, 2006, 07:59 GMT
"What is the logic behind people who just want to get in the way and hamper police efforts to protect us from the kind of scum that wants to indiscriminantly murder civilians going about there daily business." Craig, Cambridge

Sorry, which set of 'scum that wants to indiscriminantly murder civilians going about there daily business' are you complaining about?

Release of East London two: Your views
Added: Saturday, 10 June, 2006, 07:50 GMT
So the Americans were facing tough questions over their apparent ethnic cleansing of Iraqi civilians, and their rendition flights while Blair was trying to square things with the Pope. Luckily the police managed to raid an evil chemical weapons plot in London to remind all the peaceniks what this war is about. Coincidence? And then we heard that one of the brothers possibly 'wrestled a police firearm from an officer and shot his brother'!! Oh right.

REMEMBER THIS COULD BE YOU NEXT!

Here's what I said then.......
Friday, 2 June, 2006, 18:28 GMT
"If you draw a line on the map from the oil fields of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, in the east, to the Mediterranean Sea, you will see why Iran is soon to be strategically important. And if I were Syrian I'd be looking a bit nervous now."

Lo and behold, in London, later that week...........

"The Times June 05, 2006
Exiles plot to overthrow Syria's Baathist regime
By Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor

LEADING Syrian opposition figures, led by the country’s former Vice-President, gathered in London yesterday for a two-day conference to plot the overthrow of the Baathist regime of President Assad.
The unprecedented gathering, which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office insisted was not co-ordinated with any British officials, was led by Abdel Halim Khaddam, who predicted that Syria’s increasingly dictatorial leadership would one day soon be toppled by a popular revolt."

Spooky ain't it..............