Reply #6: coming to love one's jailer

[sweetheart]

I can't say i loved him... i liked jack straw, and have only known
the 2 of them since blair took power. Compared to the american
equivalent, all of them have been like living with saints. Ashcroft
was as demonic as they come.

Perhaps it was less a "love" and more the psychology of the prisoner.
Will the new prison guard beat me... and all that. I am never quite
sure what the policy is on cannabis, whether it is labour that drove
that, or blunkett, or blair secretly... as the torys have made no
bones about their intention to re-criminalize life in general, there
is clearly a much "worse" party out there... and i should count
my blessings.

As for blunkett's use of the terrorism laws, i was less impressed,
but geez, i have not the history of seeing IRA imprisoned by the
hundreds, and perhaps bunkett was a most lenient one, when all the
stats are filed.