1. Pissing off potential terrorists - anyone see Spooks? There is an episode where a Muslim is wrongfully detained by the Government, in solitary confinement for 2 years. While not in solitary, he gets turned into a terrorist. Not a real story, but very plausible. Also, our intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan may well radicalise people - when America kills your leaders and drops a bomb that kills your family, you may well become more pissed off at them, even to the point of terorism - I DO NOT CONDONE TERRORISM, but I have the ability to imagine other peoples' point of view.
   
2. Resisting understanding terrorists. GWB would like to see the world in black and white ("Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."[1], "States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil [referring to Iraq, Iran and North Korea]"[2]), but for people who are out of preschool, there are at least 3 sides to every story. Only by understanding the causes of terrorism and fixing them will we defeat terrorists.
   

• ID Cards (monitoring of potentially everything, proposed only)
  
• ASBOs (reduces standard of evidence needed to impose punishments on people, better to have some more offences of anti social behaviour and prove it in court)
  
• Criminal Justice Act 2003 (allows judges to sit without juries in some cases, allows people to be retried for serious crimes if "compelling new evidence", allows use of hearsay evidence and evidence of bad character, including previous convictions/acquittals)
  
• The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (gives any cabinet minister right to do almost anything in the event of an emergency - probably necessary, but not checked very well)
  
• The Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (you can be locked up with Eminem played to you and no trial, indefinitely, if a court can be convinced "on the balance of probabilities" that you may be participating in terrorist activities)
  
• The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (every offence is arrestable, which means your DNA and fingerprints can end up on file even if you are not even charged with the most minor offence, and you can't protest within 1km of Parliament - something Tony Blair praised , saying "thank God they can. That's called freedom" (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article332161.ece) (I tell a lie, you can, but you must apply at least 24 hours in advance and the police may refuse without oversight))
  
• Terrorism Act 2000 (Groups can be banned by MPs without any evidence and any association with that group (e.g. wearing a badge, organising/attending a meeting) is an offence)
  
• Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 "Permits the Home Secretary to certify any foreigner as an “international terrorist” if he/she decides that they are a risk to national security" and then detain them indefinitely
  
• Police Act 1997 (Police can bug a property without a warrant in order to collect evidence for serious crimes)
  

Bored.
 I am.
  I am bored at the moment.
   Bored is what I currently am.
    I am really quite bored currently.
     I am not being helped in my boredom by this post.
      Bed is where I am going to go in a minute.
       Because I am really, really, really, really bored.