Theresa May plans new powers to make British terror suspects stateless.

[dipsydoodle]

Theresa May plans to strip British terror suspects of their citizenship and take away their UK passports even if it leaves them stateless, Whitehall sources have confirmed.

May wants to bring in legislation allowing the removal of a UK passport from any terror suspect whose conduct is "seriously prejudicial to the interests of the UK", in a move designed to make it harder for them to return to Britain if they travel abroad.

The home secretary already has the power to take away British citizenship from those with dual nationality, and since taking office May has confiscated the UK passports of 16 individuals alleged to have links with terror groups.

She has repeatedly said that a UK passport is a "privilege, not a right". Whitehall sources have reportedly said May believes it cannot be right that a person who has enjoyed the benefits of becoming a UK citizen should keep their passport if they act in a way that is "totally at odds" with British values.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/12/theresa-may-british-terror-suspects-stateless-passport

[non sociopath skin]

1. I have no sympathy with terrorists but I worry that this may be the thin end of the wedge ...

.... for a government which increasingly sees paranoia and xenophobia as potential electoral strategies.

The Skin

[RC]

2. It sounds like Theresa May herself is a terrorist.

A government employed terrorist, wasting the tax payers money. British values, or her values?

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. The biggest problem here is they are *suspects*, not convicts

If an open process of justice proved beyond reasonable doubt they had sone something serious, then maybe confiscating a passport and saying "if you do leave the country, we won't let you back in" might be justifiable, very occasionally. But doing this to suspects just allows the Home Secretary to punish people without due process.

[dipsydoodle]

4. May well tie in

with the proposal to ship them and let them fight their court cases from abroad. In that case being only "suspects" would become arbitrary.