{"id":1161,"date":"2009-03-10T21:36:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T21:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/03\/10\/1161\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T21:36:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T21:36:53","slug":"anti-terrorism-legislation-and-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/anti-terrorism-legislation-and-northern-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-terrorism legislation and Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gryts\/1573016454\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2215\/1573016454_9b4eb6e52f_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gryts\/1573016454\/\">Union Jack<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/gryts\/\">Gryts<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s an interesting difference between the recent attack by the <i>Real IRA<\/i> and all the previous incidents in Northern Ireland: This one took place in a post-9\/11 world.<\/p>\n<p>The Westminster Parliament has enacted lots of anti-terrorism legislation, all with Islamist terrorism in mind.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether these laws will now be used in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Will we see suspects detained for a month before they see a judge, for instance?<\/p>\n<p>At least the US are now backing away from torture, or perhaps we would&#8217;ve seen members of the Real IRA sent to Morocco for torturing?<\/p>\n<p>If the anti-terrorism legislation is not applied to Northern Ireland, I guess that could be seen as racism.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Jack Originally uploaded by Gryts There&#8217;s an interesting difference between the recent attack by the Real IRA and all the previous incidents in Northern Ireland: This one took place in a post-9\/11 world. The Westminster Parliament has enacted lots of anti-terrorism legislation, all with Islamist terrorism in mind. I wonder whether these laws will now be used in Northern Ireland. Will we see suspects detained for a month before they see a judge, for instance? At least the US are now backing away from torture, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}