British Video Recordings Act 1984 Invalid

chrb writes "BBC News is reporting that the British Video Recordings Act 1984 is invalid due to a 25 year old legal blunder. The Thatcher government of the day failed to officially "notify" the European Commission about the law, and hence it no longer stands as a legal Act. There will now be a period of around three months before the Act can be passed again, during which time it will be entirely legal to sell any video content without age-rated certifications."

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Re:at least they're fixing it

[Daniel Dvorkin]

Which explains why so many violent criminals manage to dodge convictions here based on legal technicalities.

Oh yeah, those goddamn technicalities like the Bill of Rights. Why are we still worried about such archaic ideas anyway? We've got to get the criminals off the streets, damn it! The police have to beat confessions out of people to KEEP US SAFE! WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!?

In other words: fuck you, and fuck everyone else who is willing to give away the basic freedoms that generations fought and died for because of something you saw on a TV cop show. You want to live in a place without those pesky "technicalities?" There are lots of countries all over the world that fit that requirement. Give them a try sometime ... you may have a different view afterwards. If you survive the experience.