We have chosen as a society to put the civil liberties of the suspect, even if a foreign national, first.

What part of "everyone is equal before law" does Mr. Bliar not understand?... We haven't put anyone's civil liberties ahead of anyone else's. And what's this about "even if a foreign national"? Are foreign nationals lesser people? Don't you fight for universal human rights?

[Extremists'] right to traditional civil liberties comes first.

And here we switched from suspects to 'extremists', as defined by who and judged by who? I see my suspicion that for Bliar, "suspect" equals "guilty" (equals evil son of Satan) reinforced.

I believe

Faith-based politics. Some say that Bliar's lies and hypocrisy prove that his faith is not sincere. But I believe faith and hypocrisy don't contradict. Bliar strikes me like a true raving lunatic, one who believes the strength of his faith in his ideas is all te proof needed, one who above all believes in himself being right, and one who starts to believe his own lies and starts to believe his shifting positions were always his positions as soon as he repeated a lie twice.

this is a dangerous misjudgment.

No, it is a strawman, see above.

This extremism, operating the world over, is not like anything we have faced before.

Oh really? It is worse than fascism, stalinism, 9th/20th-century anarchist terrorism, and all the various religious extremisms of the past millennia?... What a phenomenal loss of scale.

It needs to be confronted with every means at our disposal.

Every means? With nukes, airplanes, nuclear subs, police state, and all means of dirty war? Wouldn't that make Britain an extremist the world hasn't faced ever before?...

Tougher laws in themselves help, but just as crucial is the signal they send out: that Britain is an inhospitable place to practise this extremism.

That's how those never-before-seen extremists, the communists were dealt with in Germany -- in the thirties. Look what became of it. And look at the profiles of British terrorists since 9/11 -- as if there would be something common and easily recognisable among them. The only practicable thing that may come out from such rhetoric is concentration camps for all Muslims and darko immigrants.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}