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		<title>Never mind massive credit fraud &#8211; how did Chinese gang get benefits and a London council flat?</title>
		<link>http://www.thebritishcitizen.com/2009/04/chinese-council-flat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apart from the fact that they ran a large credit card fraud operation which spread across the world &#8211; bad enough in itself &#8211; how on EARTH did a gang of illegal Chinese immigrants get free benefit handouts and a council flat in Walworth, London? There must be thousands of low-paid and other eligible BRITISH [...]]]></description>
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<p>Apart from the fact that they ran a large credit card fraud operation which spread across the world &#8211; bad enough in itself &#8211; how on EARTH did a gang of illegal Chinese immigrants get free benefit handouts and a council flat in Walworth, London?</p>
<p>There must be thousands of low-paid and other eligible BRITISH families in the Southwark area who should have been living there, rather than these scum.</p>
<p>Southwark is the parliamentary constituency of Lib Dem big cheese Simon Hughes, and the council itself is run by Labour and Lib Dem councillors, so how do they justify their local housing and benefits policy?</p>
<p><strong>Questions need to be asked and Southwark Council held accountable for this cock-up.</strong></p>
<p>This part of the <a title="Link to BBC London story" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8001185.stm" target="_blank">story</a> will probably be buried, but it shouldn&#8217;t be.</p>
<p>How many other illegal immigrants and  criminals have council flats in London or anywhere else in Britain when they shouldn&#8217;t even be in the country, never mind getting benefits from the British taxpayer?   Now they HAVE been caught, we&#8217;ll no doubt be paying for them to stay in our overcrowded prisons, too, rather than getting their own country to bang them up at their expense.</p>
<p><strong>Do YOU want to join us in trying to stop this nonsense happening?<br />
</strong>Why not write to your local council under the Freedom of Information Act and find out how many people of overseas birth are being given housing and benefits in YOUR area?<br />
Write to your MP, too and demand action.</p>
<p><strong>Don&#8217;t let Britain carry on being a pushover for the whole world to screw us for free money and housing when we need to help our own people.</strong></p>
<p>Some useful links to help you make your voice heard:</p>
<p><a title="Visit their website" href="http://www.writetothem.com/" target="_blank">www.writetothem.com</a></p>
<p><a title="Visit their website" href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/" target="_blank">www.theyworkforyou.com</a></p>
<p><a title="Visit the Parliament website" href="http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/members/mps_contact.cfm" target="_blank">www.parliament.uk</a></p>
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		<title>Think again, old son&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thebritishcitizen.com/2009/04/pakistan-student-terrorists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Pakistan&#8217;s High Commissioner to the UK, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, thinks that Pakistan already &#8216;does enough&#8217; to prevent terrorist students entering the UK. Well, he won&#8217;t mind if we ban ALL Pakistan nationals from entering the UK until further notice, then. After all, why should the British taxpayer pay for costly screening and monitoring of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7993304.stm" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1007" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 20px;" title="Pakistan Commissioner has another think coming..." src="http://www.thebritishcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pakistan-commissioner.jpg" alt="Pakistan Commissioner has another think coming..." width="276" height="229" /></a>So Pakistan&#8217;s High Commissioner to the UK, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, thinks that Pakistan already &#8216;does enough&#8217; to prevent terrorist students entering the UK.</strong></p>
<p>Well, he won&#8217;t mind if we ban ALL Pakistan nationals from entering the UK until further notice, then.</p>
<p>After all, why should the British taxpayer pay for costly screening and monitoring of his countrymen?  The amount we may earn in university and college course fees is no doubt MORE than offset by the COST to Britain of administration, surveillance and monitoring of his would-be terrorist fanatics.</p>
<p><strong>We have no obligation to allow them entry and we can do without the hassle they cause us.</strong></p>
<p>Apart from Pakistani students on fake or trumped-up visas, who have no intention of studying anything other than how to bomb and kill our citizens, we don&#8217;t need more visitors, tourists or &#8216;businessmen&#8217; from Pakistan, period.  A large number don&#8217;t return after their studies or their &#8216;visit&#8217;  in any case &#8211; which breaks the terms of their visa and which goes largely unreported and unenforced, too.</p>
<p>And these are only the ones we KNOW about.<br />
Who knows <em>(the Home Office / Borders Agency certainly doesn&#8217;t)</em> how many enter the UK illegally in the back of trucks or as visiting &#8216;relatives&#8217; of those who are already here?</p>
<p>The only way in future we should be prepared to allow Pakistanis entry is if their government vouches for them and takes responsibility for their actions, both financially and morally.</p>
<p><em>So the ball is back in </em><em>your court, Mr Commissioner.<br />
If you&#8217;re not prepared to vouch 100% for your own citizens, then we&#8217;re not prepared to allow them in to kill ours.<br />
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<p><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><a title="'Write to your MP' website" href="http://www.writetothem.com/" target="_blank">Write to your MP now</a> and object to any further students entering this country from Pakistan.</strong></span></p>
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		<title>Surprise &#8211; immigrants NOT leaving after all</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; We knew all along that the story was too good to be true &#8211; certainly in London, Bristol and Hull.&#160; As usual, it&#8217;s another government deception to try and quell the growing number of voices speaking out against increasing numbers of illegal immigrants and the resulting dilution of the British culture and lifestyle. In [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>We knew all along that the story was too good to be true &#8211; certainly in London, Bristol and Hull.&nbsp; <br />
            As usual, it&#8217;s another government deception to try and quell the growing number of voices speaking out against increasing numbers of illegal immigrants and the resulting dilution of the British culture and lifestyle.</strong> </p>
<p>In recent weeks we&#8217;ve been told that Polish and other economic migrants from EU countries and Eastern Europe are going back home because of our recession. You only have to walk around the high streets and shopping malls in London and other city centres to know it&#8217;s not true: just take in the people and conversations around you. </p>
<p>Now we hear that the fine city of Hull has a &#8216;Polish only&#8217; jobs market springing up <a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2009/mar/16/immigration-jobs-cities"><small style="font-style: italic;">(Guardian, 16 March)</small></a>. So much for &#8216;British jobs for British workers&#8217;. </p>
<p>A &#8216;Centre for Cities&#8217; study in Hull and in Bristol has evidently found that neither city has experienced this &#8216;exodus of migrant workers&#8217; either.&nbsp; In fact, 18% of these workers brought with them their partners, children or both &#8211; which is 22% above the national average. The report goes on to say: <em>&quot;(migrants)&#8230;are channeled into these jobs through recruitment agencies, many of which were unofficially &#8216;Polish only&#8217;. If you are not eastern European you are unlikely to go on the books. There are now two separate job markets in the city &ndash; one with long-term residents, the other with migrants.&quot;</em> And yet the Guardian piece argues, bizarrely, that we should &#8216;do more to integrate those that want to stay&#8217; (i.e. ALL of them) in order to help our economic recovery.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p>
<p><span style="font-style: italic;">S</span>o how does that work?<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><em> </em></span>  We let them in to have jobs, homes and benefits, and that&#8217;s apparently going to help our own workers and citizens ?<br />
            Somebody needs to explain that one&#8230;  </p>
<p><strong>In the meantime, we need to STOP the influx of foreigners, not </strong><em>encourage </em><strong>it. We also need to REMOVE those who are here illegally, and we need to do it NOW.</strong>  </p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"><strong>Is anyone in government listening?</strong></span>  <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"><strong> </strong></span>  <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"><strong> </strong></span></p>
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		<title>Boris Johnson &#8211; the Pied Piper of illegal immigrants?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are certainly some interesting parallels between Boris and the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who was thought to be &#8216;a recruiter for the colonization of Eastern Europe which took place in the 13th century&#8217; (1) , and who led away &#8216;a big part of the young generation of Hamelin to a region in Eastern Europe&#8217;. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-708" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;" title="Johnson - a towering buffoon of the first order" src="http://www.thebritishcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/borisimmigration.jpg" alt="Johnson - a towering buffoon of the first order" width="240" height="164" />There are certainly some interesting parallels between Boris and the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who was thought to be <em>&#8216;a recruiter for the colonization of Eastern Europe which took place in the 13th century&#8217;</em> <em><a title="Link to WikiPedia page" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper#Emigration_hypothesis" target="_blank">(1)</a> </em>, and who led away <em>&#8216;a big part of the young generation of Hamelin to a region in Eastern Europe&#8217;</em>.<br />
In Johnson&#8217;s case, of course, it&#8217;s the other way around: for &#8216;led away&#8217;, read &#8216;encouraged to stay here&#8217;, and it&#8217;s not <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">to</span> </em>Eastern Europe, but  <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>from</em></span>&#8230; the Eastern bloc,  Africa, India, Pakistan, Asia or anywhere you like.</p>
<p><a title="Boris Johnson on BBC's Panorama" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00j4bd7/Panorama_Immigration_Time_for_an_Amnesty/" target="_blank">Boris</a> has suggested that he&#8217;s in favour of an amnesty for illegal immigrants, the key word being ILLEGAL. They entered our country <em>illegally</em>, they live and work here <em>illegally</em>, and many are claiming financial and healthcare benefits either directly or often indirectly through supposedly legal immigrants we&#8217;ve already let in &#8211; all at the expense of the British taxpayer. <strong><br />
That&#8217;s you and me. Our money. Our jobs. Our health services.</strong><br />
So once again we have an upper-class toff showing absolutely no understanding of the lives and concerns of ordinary people, trying to kid us that he does, and now showing his true colours.<br />
We all thought he was harmless of course &#8211; a lovable buffoon &#8211; and he&#8217;s played on that for over a year, but he needs to show he&#8217;s a serious public servant, not the Pied Piper of City Hall.  We don&#8217;t need him leading an endless stream of illegal immigrant &#8216;rats&#8217; through London and up the steps of City Hall to claim their free benefits, National Insurance number and &#8216;Buy-one-get-one-free&#8217; citizenships (they always bring their partners and kids, of course).<br />
They haven&#8217;t paid <em>anything </em>into our system, so why should they get a free ride to the front of the queue, courtesy of Boris Johnson?</p>
<p>Strangely in support of Boris, one of the journalists at the Guardian is suggesting that this might be a good idea. To quote <a title="Guardian, 14 March" href="http://is.gd/nxfD" target="_blank">Rahila Gupta</a>: <em>&#8220;&#8230;this amnesty will leave 700,000 people better off. It will mean a life free from fear of deportation. They will have the protection of employment laws, including the minimum wage, and can even campaign for the London living wage of £7.45 per hour&#8221;</em>.<br />
Oh, and who&#8217;ll be paying for these lucky 700,000 people?  Boris Johnson? Rahila Gupta? Guardian readers? We don&#8217;t think it will be the liberal-minded and politically-correct members of our society who will lose <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>their</em></span> comfortable jobs to foreigners.<br />
No, <em>it&#8217;ll be <span style="text-decoration: underline;">us</span> </em> &#8211; ordinary British workers struggling to get by in the mess that politicians and greedy bankers have got us into. Dumping on us from above while we get shafted from the illegal migrants below.<br />
<strong>Nothing ever changes&#8230; unless we stand up to this nonsense.</strong><br />
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There may be an economic point to be made about the cost of policing borders and tracking down illegals, but we&#8217;d rather <span style="text-decoration: underline;">tighten</span> the laws, increase <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">severely</span> </em>the punishment of illegals and reinforce our policing to CATCH and DEPORT them as soon as possible. They may then get the message and stop queuing up in their droves in France, looking for the next truck to get them over here.</p>
<p><strong><a title="Find your MP and contat them HERE" href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/" target="_blank">Contact your MP</a> about this ridiculous move for amnesty and make your voice heard</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #993366;">AND </span><span style="color: #993366;">sign the official petition</span> to Gordon Brown by clicking <a title="Link to No10 website" href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/migraeconom/" target="_blank">here.</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Blunkett admits ID card error</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fair enough &#8230;it takes a brave man to admit his mistakes, and all that. David Blunkett &#8211; the former Labour Home Secretary who actually introduced the idea of identity cards &#8211; now realises that the idea was big-brother-gone-mad and that compulsory ID cards for everyone is not the way to go. Just give them to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-396" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;" title="Big brother is watching you" src="http://www.thebritishcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/idcard240x200.jpg" alt="Big brother is watching you" width="144" height="120" />Fair enough &#8230;it takes a brave man to admit his mistakes, and all that.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> David Blunkett</span> &#8211; the former Labour Home Secretary who actually <span style="text-decoration: underline;">introduced</span> the idea of identity cards &#8211; now realises that the idea was big-brother-gone-mad and that compulsory ID cards for everyone is not the way to go. Just give them to foreigners, he says now. He&#8217;s also <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blunkett-warns-over-8216big-brother8217-britain-1629331.html" target="_blank">not convinced</a> that the current minister, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jacqui </span><span style="font-style: italic;">&#8216;where do I live?&#8217;</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Smith</span>, has the right idea with her giant central database to snoop on people&#8217;s phone calls, texts and web surfing habits&#8230; (but presumably <span style="font-style: italic;">not </span>their dubious living arrangements and expense claims?).  Quote: <span style="font-style: italic;">&#8220;If we tolerate the intolerable, the intolerable gradually becomes the norm&#8221;</span>.</p>
<p>Like politicians you mean, David?   We agree.</p>
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		<title>Record immigration levels and Home Office lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 150,000 foreigners from outside the EU were allowed to work in the UK last year, a figure almost four times higher than when Labour were elected in 1997. Some 151,635 work permit applications were granted between December 2007 and November last year. This is a 17% increase on the 140,600 issued in 2007, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><small><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px; width: 171px; height: 165px;" title="Come to England - we let anyone live here" src="http://www.thebritishcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/news-ad-uk-2.jpg" alt="Come to England - we let anyone live here" width="217" height="209" /></small>More than 150,000 foreigners from outside the EU were allowed to work in the UK last year, a figure almost four times higher than when Labour were elected in 1997. Some 151,635 work permit applications were granted between December 2007 and November last year.<br />
This is a 17% increase on the 140,600 issued in 2007, and almost a <strong>four-fold rise</strong> on the 42,800 approved in 1997.  More than one in four migrants with work permits were allowed to stay for up to five years, although 40% were for less than a year. Applications were approved for migrants wanting towork &amp; live in the UK or extensions for those already working here.<br />
Tory leader David Cameron said in a recent television interview: <em>&#8220;I think it was very important to make it clear that we believe in a multiracial Britain. We believe it&#8217;s a success. We think immigration has been good for Britain in the past. We think immigration will continue, but not any immigration, not all immigration, it needs to be controlled.&#8221;</em><strong><br />
A Home Office spokeswoman said:</strong> <em>&#8220;More than 90% of people working in this country are UK citizens and their rate of employment has remained stable.&#8221; &#8220;But when it comes to immigration, in difficult economic times we need a tough system. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re using the flexibility that the new Points Based System allows <span style="color: #cc0000;">to force employers to offer British jobs through Job Centre plus before recruiting foreign workers</span>. And we&#8217;re working together to get people the skills needed for these jobs to boost their chances even further.&#8221;</em><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;"><em><br />
Yes, of course you are&#8230;  that&#8217;s why workers had to strike at Total Oil in the north-east last week.</em></span></strong></p>
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		<title>7000 British security jobs given to ILLEGAL immigrants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The famous Gordon Brown promise of  &#8216;British jobs for British workers&#8217; somehow doesn&#8217;t ring true when it appears that over 7,000 security jobs in Britain &#8211; and even in our police force &#8211; were actually given to ILLEGAL immigrants approved by the less-than-competent Security Industry Authority.  As if giving the jobs to any foreigners at [...]]]></description>
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The famous Gordon Brown promise of  &#8216;British jobs for British workers&#8217; somehow doesn&#8217;t ring true when it appears that over 7,000 security jobs in Britain &#8211; and even in our police force &#8211; were actually given to ILLEGAL immigrants approved by the less-than-competent <a title="Security Authority? You must be joking..." href="http://www.the-sia.org.uk/home" target="_blank">Security Industry Authority</a>.  <em></em></p>
<p><em>As if giving the jobs to any foreigners at all wasn&#8217;t bad enough.</em></p>
<p>To make matters worse, we don&#8217;t appear to have done anything at all to expel them from the UK.  Only 35 out of 7,729 of the immigrants have been deported so far.</p>
<p>3,275 of those used a false name or National Insurance number when applying for jobs, according to <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/only-35-of-7729-illegal-security-staff-deported-1605503.html" target="_blank">information revealed in answers to Parliamentary questions</a>.</p>
<p>The Home Office was criticised more than a year ago in 2007, when it was &#8216;discovered&#8217; that basic checks were not being done to see if job applicants were entitled to work in the UK.</p>
<p>It seems that twelve illegals were actually approved for security jobs with the Metropolitan Police, including one found to be guarding the Prime Minister&#8217;s car.   <img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-196" title="gordon-brown-car-415x275" src="http://www.thebritishcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gordon-brown-car-415x275-240x159.jpg" alt="gordon-brown-car-415x275" width="240" height="159" /></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Perhaps with the state of the country as it is, Brown couldn&#8217;t be sure that a British guard would actually bother to protect him from </span></strong><span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>his own citizens</em></span><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">, never mind terrorists? </span></strong></p>
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		<title>FIFTEEN YEARS of Immigration legal fudge&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; a case history. The following is an extract and summary of the proceedings against just ONE illegal immigrant, who was discovered in 1993 and it took FIFTEEN YEARS to decide he should be locked up, then released and then locked up again.    The case of  Abu Qatada, aka Omar Mohammed Othman: 1. The appellant [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#8230; a case history.</strong></p>
<p>The following is an extract and summary of the proceedings against just ONE illegal immigrant, who was discovered in 1993 and it took FIFTEEN YEARS to decide he should be locked up, then released and then locked up again.    <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-141" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;" title="abuqatada" src="http://www.thebritishcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/abuqatada.jpg" alt="abuqatada" width="177" height="191" /></p>
<p>The <a title="Link to legal case document" href="http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/SIAC/2008/15_2005.html" target="_blank">case </a>of  <strong>Abu Qatada,</strong> aka <strong>Omar Mohammed Othman:</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. </strong> The appellant arrived in the United Kingdom on 16th September <span style="color: #ff0000;">1993 </span><em>(when the Tories were in power) </em>with his wife and three children on <span style="color: #ff0000;">forged United Arab Emirates passports</span>. He claimed asylum on arrival and was <span style="color: #ff0000;">granted refugee status on 30th June 1994</span>.<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000;">He was given four years leave to enter. </span></p>
<p>On 17th January <span style="color: #ff0000;">2001 </span>the Secretary of State certified that he was a <span style="color: #ff0000;">risk to national security</span> and issued a notice of intention to deport.<br />
The notice was not served at that time, because <span style="color: #ff0000;">the appellant &#8220;went to groun<span style="color: #ff0000;">d</span></span><span style="color: #ff0000;">&#8220;. </span></p>
<p>On 23rd October <span style="color: #ff0000;">2002 </span>he was detained and issued with a certificate under section 21 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 and served with the notice of intention to deport.<br />
He appealed against it.<br />
His appeal was dismissed by SIAC on 8th March <span style="color: #ff0000;">2004</span>.</p>
<p>He was <span style="color: #ff0000;">released </span>on <span style="color: #ff0000;">&#8220;immigration bail&#8221; (?)</span> on 11th March <span style="color: #ff0000;">2005 </span>and <em>on the following day</em> served with a Control Order under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005.<br />
On 11th August <span style="color: #ff0000;">2005</span>, he was served with a fresh notice of intention to deport on the ground that his presence in the United Kingdom was <span style="color: #ff0000;">&#8220;not conducive to the public good&#8221;</span> and detained under immigration powers.</p>
<p>His appeal against the notice was dismissed by SIAC on 5th March <span style="color: #ff0000;">2007</span>.<br />
SIAC found that he was a <span style="color: #ff0000;">threat to national security</span>, principally on the ground that he <span style="color: #ff0000;">encouraged other extremists to commit acts of terrorism</span> by providing religious sanction for their deeds. He was found to have long standing associations with other terrorist groups, including <span style="color: #ff0000;">Al Qaeda</span>. He was also found to have ready access to money and false documents for the purpose <span style="color: #ff0000;">facilitating terrorism</span>.</p>
<p><strong>2. </strong> In April <span style="color: #ff0000;">2008</span>, his appeal to the Court of Appeal was <span style="color: #ff0000;">allowed</span>, on safety on return grounds. He applied for bail.<br />
On 8th May 2008 SIAC decided that, in principle, he should be admitted to bail on stringent terms, including a twenty two hour curfew and a full package of restrictions upon his ability to communicate with others.<br />
At that date, <span style="color: #ff0000;">the Court of Appeal had refused permission to the Secretary of State to appeal to the House of Lords</span>.</p>
<p>An application for permission to the Appellate Committee was outstanding. The Commission accepted that the grounds upon which permission was sought were arguable, but that it could not simply ignore what had happened in the Court of Appeal. The fact that he had succeeded in his appeal was treated as of very great significance.<br />
Nevertheless, <span style="color: #ff0000;">the Commission accepted that the appellant represented a continuing and significant risk to national security</span> and that there was a current and significant risk of absconding.<br />
<strong>3. </strong> The appellant was released on 17th June <span style="color: #ff0000;">2008 </span>to live at an address with his family in West London. On the morning of Saturday 8th November 2008, he was <em>(finally!)</em> detained at his home and taken to Belmarsh Prison.<br />
The Secretary of State contends that the Commission should conclude that, if he was readmitted to bail, he would be “likely to break any condition on which he was released”, so that the Commission should direct that he be detained under paragraph 24(3) of Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>Postscript:</em></span><br />
The home secretary, Jacqui Smith <em>(who?)</em>, said she was pleased that Qatada&#8217;s bail had been revoked:<br />
&#8220;He poses a significant threat to our national security and I am pleased that he will be detained pending his deportation, which I&#8217;m working hard to secure.&#8221;<br />
Qatada was taken back to Belmarsh prison in east London, but is expected to be moved to Long Lartin maximum security prison in the near future.</p>
<p><strong>HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO GET RID OF THIS MAN FOR GOOD?<br />
ARE OUR LEGAL AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS SO INEPT THAT IT TAKES 15 YEARS TO GET NOWHERE WITH THIS?</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>&#8230;   and how much has it cost the taxpayer so far, &#8216;entertaining&#8217; this parasite?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span style="color: #888888;">The situation beggars belief.      Petition your MP until something is done.</span><br />
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