We have been repeatedly told that suspects will only be detained for six weeks without trial in the gravest cases affecting national security.
This is a lie.
 
We were promised that the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 would only be used in cases of national security.
Instead, it is used by just about every local authority in the country to spy on ordinary people. The effect - and almost certainly the purpose - of this law will be to create a new weapon of administrative detention.

It may be used against the occasional terrorist suspect.

Much more often, though, dissidents and other 'trouble-makers' will be told to shut up or
face arrest on suspicion of terrorist offences. They will be held without charge for six weeks, then released without charge. In the meantime, they will have lost their jobs and reputations; their lives will be in ruins.

All this - and without the shadow of due process.

Anyone who believes such wickedness is beyond the imagination of our rulers is either ignorant of human nature in general or blind to what this Labour Government has done since 1997.