Well, at least Charles Clark didn’t say that the bombings meant we must now all have ID Cards, but this looks like a pretty lame justification for another repressive measure:

Millions of personal
email and mobile phone records could be stored and shared with police
and intelligence officials across Europe to help thwart terrorist
attacks.

The
Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, will propose new measures at an
emergency meeting of European Union interior ministers which will
discuss the implications of Thursday’s London bombings.

He
raised the stakes dramatically by claiming they could ‘quite possibly’
have helped prevent such attacks, by identifying in advance suspicious
patterns of behaviour by potential terrorists.

I get so annoyed at this sort of thing. Can’t we all see that there will always be a group of nutters out there who want to kill us? And that stopping being the free people that we are won’t change that fact?