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UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days
the_leander writes "Prime Minister Gordon Brown has narrowly won a House of Commons vote on extending the maximum time police can hold terror suspects to 42 days. There is talk of compensation packages available for the falsely accused. The chances of you getting that money however are slim to none, lets not forget, this is the same country that charges prisoners who have been falsely accused for bed and boarding costs."
Is that 42 in base 13?
At least the English know not to do something like Guantanamo Bay. They tried that 220 years ago, and created Australia.
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
The answer to life, the universe and everything now includes the number of days the UK can hold you without charges.
Did they pass the bill for charging prisoners for their Information Retrieval Procedures yet? Is that next week?
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
I, obviously, do not condone the actions of things like guantanomo bay or abu whatever-the-fuck. With that said, isolate incidents are isolated incident (abu ghraib being a really good example, yeah a ton fo people fucked up, but it's not a policy of the united states to do the things that were do at abu ghraib). The fact is, it reminds against the law to withold someone without charges for more than 48 hours if they are a citizen.
IN the UK they can detain you for 42 days.. if you are a citizen.. with no charges. I find the implications disturbing.
Looks like the Brits finally have acknowledged that 42 is the answer to everything.
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You asked: "What do your lords use for guidance over there?"
The answer is "whether or not they had a jolly good lunch at the club."
> Yes! You know who else was part of that fine tradition? Stalin, Hitler, Mussolin
All three renowned for being upstanding members of the house of Lords?
no taxation without representation!
"Though as a Tory and programmer I think it's like a very old piece of code which has been patched for a long time, hard to understand but for good reasons. "
So essentially you're saying it is like Microsoft Windows. That should go down well here.
"by that I mean people who don't sit on slashdot all day wondering why everyone else isn't building robots" DECS
Ah someone with some knowledge, spoilsport, just as this thread was dipping into comparisons between the House of Lords and The Nazi party ;)
See you all in 42 days...
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Wow - I think that is the only time I've ever seen somebody try to trump tabloid "evidence" with a blog post...
Not saying that I disagree with the point that the Daily Mail is junk =)
I swear we should be allowed to give mod points to sigs... "-1, Offtopic"
Well, let's rewrite the analogy in more /. terms. The Americans - and many other countries - have monolithic constitutions. Ours is modular - a mass of different reform acts and statutes and precedents, on top of the Monarch E2 microconstitution. Britain's running on Hurd, thank you very much.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
hey im from bumfuck, iowa you insensitive clod.
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Is Royal Ascent when the Queen climbs on top of the bill? Or did you mean Royal Assent?
No they weren't, they had no sanity checks by a second chamber.
By the way, Hitler was elected by the popular vote by spouting populist nonsense.
America, Home of the Brave.
I'm for this 42 day thing myself.
:)
See you in 42 days then
Still doesn't stop some idiot Yank from going on about how we're all fellating Big Brother (while his government pays someone to urinate on a naked human pyramid of "unlawful combatants").
Douglas Hurd? That explains a lot...
Yet more evidence that farming is a danger to our society and way of life and should be stamped out at all costs.