A Deeply Dangerous Man

Hicham Yezza is a deeply dangerous man. He is Algerian and an immigrant, after all. He has lived in Britain for thirteen years, which was jolly cunning of him. A friend of his downloaded an "al-Qaeda training manual", which the US Department of Justice apparently thought safe enough to make generally available, and forwarded it to Yezza for printing. Gratifyingly, this horrible crime was detected by the best police force in the world, and Yezza and his friend were detained for six days, following which the friend was released and Yezza was re-arrested for being an immigrant and scheduled for deportation in eight days.

That was in May and June. However, thanks to the nasty vested interests which cause so much misery to the Ministry of Dawn Raids and Deportations, Yezza has not yet been thrown out. In its exceeding naïvety and innocence, the Ministry seems to have been suckered into postponing his deportation until he had received a fair trial. A fair trial, as we all know, is merely a transparently disgraceful legal dodge whereby guilty persons gain the oxygen of publicity without even necessarily having to be jailed, deported or made to wear an orange jacket at the end of it all. Fortunately, the Ministry has now seen the error of its ways, and has scheduled a new immigration hearing for 8 January. Parliament is in recess, which should prevent any unpleasantness; and Yezza's legal aid covers only the criminal charges against him rather than the immigration proceedings, so that taxpayers' money will be spent only on the necessary, prudent and humane business of removing him from the country.

Rather than follow any of the suggestions here, I am sure we should all be proud and happy.