FOREIGN Secretary Jack Straw slammed the weekend march through Blackburn by Taliban supporters as "sick."

I'll say it was -- above all, I am sure, to the relatives of East Lancashire's war dead attending Remembrance Day services the following day. What must they have thought of their loved ones' sacrifice in the cause of freedom -- when only the previous day extremist fanatics were given the freedom to rant seditious support in the middle of Blackburn for the enemy at a time of war? If that's not treason, what is?

Shouldn't these people have been arrested on the spot the minute it became apparent that this was to be a lot more than an anti-war march and that it was, in fact, blatant treachery?

What's sick is that they weren't.