What do u think of the new law that Bush wants to implement?

i agree with him all the way .terrorists are people that dont give a damn about hurting a killing other people in the most grusome and unhumane ways

Now that the judicial and legislative branches of the US government are beginning to rediscover their constitutional purpose, perhaps they will halt George W Bush's Gadarene rush to establish a neocon heaven on earth. They were intended by the Founding Fathers to provide a system of checks and balances on the behaviour of the executive branch; a curb on presidential excesses, if you like. By striking down the kangaroo courts (euphem-istically referred to as "Military Commissions" by the executive) intended to try those detained at Guantanamo Bay, the Supreme Court is beginning to purge itself of its own contempt of the constitution displayed late in 2000 when, acting like a branch office of the GOP, it handed the Presidency over to Bush in the face of compelling evidence of electoral fraud in that Bush-run subsidiary, Florida. Now the Senate, with the backing of the former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has refused to pass legislation which would permit Bush to debauch further the rule of law and the operation of the Bill of Rights in the US. After being so thwarted, he virtually threw a tantrum during a press conference at the White House. He wants the Senate to enact a measure which will permit his travesty of an administration to continue with interrogation techniques which are tantamount to torture; to subvert the Geneva Convention and try suspects before military tribunals with only the sketchiest of knowledge of the evidence, some of which will have been obtained under torture. George W Bush declares himself to be second to none in his admiration for Sir Winston Churchill. He has even gone as far as borrowing a bronze bust of the great man from the British Embassy in Washington to adorn the Oval Office. His knowledge of Churchill and everything he stood for is on a par with his appreciation and practice of his Christian faith. In 1939, Churchill described Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus and the Petition of Right as being "the indispensable foundations of freedom and civilisation". Without them, he went on to state, the individual would be "at the mercy of officials and liable to be spied upon even in his own home." On another occasion, Churchill stated that the manner in which a society treats its prisoners is the measure of how civilised it really is. Perhaps the time has come for our ambassador in Washington to go the Oval Office and ask for our bust back. John W Elliott, 19 Gordon Avenue, Bishopton Fate of engineering THE letter from Malcolm Sharp (September 15) on the dearth of Scottish engineers is another in the "wake up, Scotland, before it's too late" mould. Is anyone really listening or are we sleepwalking into a decline from which there will be no return? Although not an engineer I was brought up in an age when Scottish engineering was in full flower and many of my contemporaries found employment in it. I recently watched a programme on television about the efforts of the Dutch government to protect Holland from future flooding. This meant the construction of massive and incredibly sophisticated warning systems and floodgates, which would react in a way that left me gobsmacked. These huge gates would react to weather conditions hundreds of miles away and take the appropriate action. The engineering effort was incredible. Maybe I am just unlucky, but visits to two of Scotland's much-vaunted engineering projects left me a little flat. The day I went to the Falkirk wheel it was not working (a faulty bearing). A visit to the Science Centre in Glasgow was similarly disappointing, a statement that the revolving tower was "not working" being our reward for a lengthy drive. Jim Gibson, 26 Bleachfield Road, Selkirk National Park that does nothing for anybody FOR generations Loch Lomond has been an enjoyable place to visit but, with the combination of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act and National Park status, it is fast becoming a rural ghetto worthy of a wide berth. The "National Park" is not a physical entity; it is a costly undemocratic political administration within an area decreed by lines on a map, staffed and steered by people who think they own the place. They dictate policies that are encouraging a huge increase in visitor pressure, responsible for urbanising the area into a form of cheap fun-park that is setting varying groups of users and residents at each other's throats. Litter, vandalism and other antisocial behaviour at Loch Lomond are all imports from our towns and cities and the idea that they can be addressed here, when they are rife in urban areas, is naive in the extreme. It should certainly not be incumbent upon residents or communities to co-operate with a doctrine that is responsible for ever-increasing environmental destruction on their doorstep. Mr Cantley, the new-broom convener, is right when he says he has heard many people saying: "The park does nothing for me." It is probably doing next to nothing for anybody, merely consuming vast sums of money that would be much better spent on worthwhile essential services. Just what could £9m do for the threatened Vale of Leven Hospital, instead of building a new National Park office? The sooner the National Park becomes the unacceptable face of costly bureaucracy, the better for Loch Lomond, its communities and its users. Angus Macmillan, Meikle Boturich, nr Balloch Resistance begins to Bush Gadarene rush Now that the judicial and legislative branches of the US government are beginning to rediscover their constitutional purpose, perhaps they will halt George W Bush's Gadarene rush to establish a neocon heaven on earth. They were intended by the Founding Fathers to provide a system of checks and balances on the behaviour of the executive branch; a curb on presidential excesses, if you like. By striking down the kangaroo courts (euphem-istically referred to as "Military Commissions" by the executive) intended to try those detained at Guantanamo Bay, the Supreme Court is beginning to purge itself of its own contempt of the constitution displayed late in 2000 when, acting like a branch office of the GOP, it handed the Presidency over to Bush in the face of compelling evidence of electoral fraud in that Bush-run subsidiary, Florida. Now the Senate, with the backing of the former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has refused to pass legislation which would permit Bush to debauch further the rule of law and the operation of the Bill of Rights in the US. After being so thwarted, he virtually threw a tantrum during a press conference at the White House. He wants the Senate to enact a measure which will permit his travesty of an administration to continue with interrogation techniques which are tantamount to torture; to subvert the Geneva Convention and try suspects before military tribunals with only the sketchiest of knowledge of the evidence, some of which will have been obtained under torture.