Nothing to Get Up About

Is that light the end of the tunnel, or an impending train wreck about to happen?

LONDON (Reuters) - British police and security agencies are currently monitoring 30 terrorism plots, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said in extracts of a newspaper interview released on Saturday.

"We now face a threat level that is severe. It's not getting any less, it's actually growing," she said in an interview to be published in Sunday's News of the World.

"We task the police and the security agencies with protecting us ... There are 22,000 individuals they are monitoring. There are 200 networks. There are 30 active plots," she said.

What will it take for nations of the West to institute a sane policy like that proposed by James Pinkerton's Shire Strategy?

UPDATE: Terror suspects held at one of Britain's most secure jails are secretly accessing the internet to contact their supporters.