Questions unanswered in U.K. liquid bomb trial

[Peter Presland]

We Brits are all indebted to Jacqui Smith for her extravagant expenditure of the public purse for personal benefit...

I'm pretty much lost for words over this whole 'liquid bomb plot' issue. The thing is just so outrageously in-your-face absurd as to beggar rational comment.

A case so tenuous that a retrial was needed to secure at least a few of the required convictions (A bit like the Irish Lisbon Treaty referendum).

You really do have to be blind stupid not to see the hand of MI5 behind the whole thing, but what do we get from the MSM? "Three guilty of airline bomb plot bigger than 9/11" and "The bomb plot to kill 10,000 people" are fairly typical headlines from the so-called 'quality' press. The tabloids? - wow! we've been saved from a fate far worse than death itself thanks to our wonderful Police and SIS's.

"The crime is conspiracy, not the ability to carry it out."

Exactly. The notion that mixing a viable explosive device in-flight from the alleged liquid ingredients is so far beyond the realms of possibility as to be totally absurd; but rationality and viability simply do not enter into the matter - other than to persuade credulous but resisting jurors.

The need is to keep the general public in a state of fear - grateful to their brave, diligent SIS's for keeping them safe, when it is the SIS's themselves, provoking coaching and generally cultivating patsie 'plots' so as to save us all in the nick of time with their derring-do, who are the ones that they/we should be living in fear of.

The UK SIS's have got a problem though because, by now, our Asian community are so thoroughly infiltrated by the CIA that any 'off-message' activities by the UK could well provoke the kind of nasty 'covert-ops' type activity they seem constitutionally unable to resist and which will have the likes of MI5 and MI6 scrambling to re-assert political compliance again - Lockerbie springs naturally to mind.