There was immense disruption at British ports, including Dover yesterday. There were one mile tailbacks for ferries and the Channel Tunnel which were reported by citizen journalists like Active Patriot. The police refused to tell citizen journalists what was going on but today it has been revealed in the MSM and by bloggers such as Ambush Predator, what allegedly went on yesterday.

Apparently a terror suspect, presumably on a balance of probabilities basis, in this case a Muslim one, who was electronically tagged, cut his tag off. There was then initiated the standard response of shutting down all ports in order to prevent the suspect from leaving the UK. This action of shutting down the ports seems to me to be extreme and it makes me wonder just how dangerous this terror suspect is?

If this terror suspect was so dangerous as to warrant such extreme measures as shutting down ports in order to catch him, then he must be very dangerous indeed. Why then was this terror suspect allowed to roam relatively freely with only a tag? If he’s that dangerous then why was he not confined in some way?

This terror suspect, who infuriatingly cannot be named for legal reasons, eventually gave himself up to police but not before causing immense problems with trade and travel. I’m not an authoritarian, but maybe this case shows that there is a need for something akin to the old 18b internment regulations that kept wartime fascists like Oswald Mosley from causing trouble that could be specifically aimed at extremist Muslims. Of course there would need to be legal safeguards in such a system to prevent abuse, but it may be better than allowing potentially self detonating Islamics from roaming free with only an electronic tag to give any indication as to where they are and what they are doing.