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UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days

Posted by samzenpus on from the the-terrorists-have-won dept.

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."

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  1. The Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that 42 in base 13?

    1. Re:The Question by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nobody makes jokes in base 13...

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    2. Re:The Question by martin-boundary · · Score: 5, Funny

      Va Fbivrg Ehffvn, onfr 13 rapelcgf wbxrf.

  2. At least... by NoobixCube · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least the English know not to do something like Guantanamo Bay. They tried that 220 years ago, and created Australia.

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    1. Re:At least... by invader_vim · · Score: 5, Funny

      So you're saying that in 200 years, the descendants of the Guantanamo Bay inmates are going to thrash the Americans at all their sports?

  3. Billing the prisoners by zmollusc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did they pass the bill for charging prisoners for their Information Retrieval Procedures yet? Is that next week?

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  4. 42 days by elmartinos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like the Brits finally have acknowledged that 42 is the answer to everything.

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  5. Re:Jumping the gun a bit.... by kraut · · Score: 4, Funny

    > 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?

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  6. Re:Jumping the gun a bit.... by Admiral+Ag · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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.

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  7. Re:Jumping the gun a bit.... by alan.briolat · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 =)

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  8. Re:Jumping the gun a bit.... by meringuoid · · Score: 5, Funny
    So essentially you're saying it is like Microsoft Windows. That should go down well here.

    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.

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