> David was detained using a law explicitly written for use against terrorists
Incorrect, it is applicable to all travellers entering the United Kingdom
> to detain them in airports for up to nine hours without counsel
Incorrect, he refused counsel.
> Also to not answer questions would land him in prison.
There's no real evidence of this, there is a 'must not interfere' clause but it has never been tested.
> So... it's not hyperbolic at all to say that journalism is equated with terrorism, because the state us using laws designed for use against terrorists against journalists.
> Wake up.
Could you use more of a cliché? It's hyperbole, you have just proven as much by your complete ignorance on the subject.
If you aren't permitted counsel of your choice (and he wasn't) but only counsel selected by the police (which he was offered), then you are effectively denied counsel.
> You may as well claim duty solicitors are in the palm of the Police.
While there is still a potential agency problem, duty solicitors (or, in American parlance, public defenders) aren't an alternative to counsel of choice, they exist to provide the choice to have some counsel to people who otherwise would have none, without denying them the choice of securing any of their own to the extent they can.
Providing the option of a duty solicitor is not, then, at all the same as denying someone access to willing counsel of their choice.
Incorrect, it is applicable to all travellers entering the United Kingdom
> to detain them in airports for up to nine hours without counsel
Incorrect, he refused counsel.
> Also to not answer questions would land him in prison.
There's no real evidence of this, there is a 'must not interfere' clause but it has never been tested.
> So... it's not hyperbolic at all to say that journalism is equated with terrorism, because the state us using laws designed for use against terrorists against journalists.
> Wake up.
Could you use more of a cliché? It's hyperbole, you have just proven as much by your complete ignorance on the subject.