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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.
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
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.
I'm for this 42 day thing myself.
:)
See you in 42 days then