if john stevens is so fucking sure that the belmarsh 'terrorist' detainees would 'commit devastating terror attacks against us if they could', then why was he not doing his job as commissioner of the metropolitan police and presenting the evidence against them to the crown prosecution service so that they could be tried in a court of law?



there are two possible reasons:

• he wasn't doing his job properly, either wilfully or through incompetence;


• he'd done his job properly and discovered that there is insufficient evidence to convict them.

if the reason is that he wasn't doing his job properly, then he should have been sacked and should not have been given his peerage; if the reason is that there isn't enough evidence, then he should stop politicking on behalf of bliar and big-ears and should leave it to the police to do their job properly and have those people arrested and tried when there is sufficient evidence.



could the problem be that he was incompetent, didn't get the investigations done properly and is trying to cover his arse by supporting the fascist, racist big-ears in his determination to lock-up any fucker he feels like under the guise of 'national security' - an excuse used by many governments over the years to cover-up evidence of their own incompetence by burying that evidence in red-tape and now apparently being used by a former senior policeman to cover-up his own incompetence or the incompetence of the force of which he was previously in charge.