Boom!

I know that surfing the ‘net has its risks and, if you are a purveyor of child porn, you should be ready to get hauled of to prison like the filth you are. However, sometimes, I think that the long arm of the law just gets a little too zealous. The youngest person in Britain arrested and convicted under the Terrorism Act has been sentenced to two years in a young offenders' institution. Hammaad Munshi was 16 when he was arrested in 2006. During his trial the jury heard that he had spent many hours viewing jihadist websites and had downloaded guides to making napalm, detonators and explosives. The authorities also said, ‘he had gone out of his way to possess information about how to construct explosive devices and information about how to carry out acts of terrorism’. Call me old fashioned, but doesn’t this seem a little heavy-handed and rather paranoid. So, according to the police in the UK, just viewing and downloading information about terrorism and bomb making is enough to get you into prison and make you a dangerous person to society. It appears that this guy didn’t actually ‘do’ anything and was just hanging around on the periphery of the really dangerous guys. I feel that a fine or at least a stiff talking to would have been far more beneficial and a better solution that prison time. This seems to be a case of the law ‘making a statement’ and attempting to put the fear of God into the hearts of other would-be curious and easily influenced young people. This stuff isn't hard to find on the wibbly wobbly web and anyone with a brain can find it easily. If it’s a crime to view or download this stuff – then come and arrest me. Just type in ‘making napalm’ into Google and see what you get – ah-ha! Caught you! You nasty terrorist, you.