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UK Gov't Launches 'Your Freedom' Website To Seek Laws Worth Repealing
Firefalcon writes "The UK Government launched Thursday the 'Your Freedom' website, headed by the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, to 'identify laws that should be repealed.' In a recent tweet, Police State UK pointed out an article in the New Statesman which appeals for people to call on the Government to repeal the ill thought-out Digital Economy Act that was rushed through Parliament without sufficient scrutiny. While part of the Act is regarding the digital TV switchover, other sections allow for users to be restricted or disconnected from the Internet at the behest of copyright owners, which goes against the principle of 'innocent until proven guilty' that has been in place since the Magna Carta."
"Return"?
When has it ever been. Government sponsored megacorporations and enclosing commons is not libertarian.
LOL.
How so. Homosexuals were hanged until the 1860s, then imprisoned. You had to be a member of the Church of England to reach any position of importance in the empire. Britain was an empire stretching over a quarter of the globe, built through these megacorps, and violently repressing people by tens and hundreds of millions. Women had no right to property, or vote, or anything. Blacks were just barely out of slavery: it was abolished in the 1830s. Male suffrage was not even universal before that, even for free men. The working class had 0 protection and their lives were generally in squalor. Social mobility was non existent, the "commoners" who rose up were related by blood to the nobility already the majority of the time. Functional illiteracy was incredibly high, children died in droves in the first four years of their lives, and a majority of London's working class women were at least part time prostituting for subsistance.
Take off the pink colored glasses, will you, it was only good if you were rich, white, straight and male.
Your main point relies on a view of the 19th century that wasn't so. Addressing it would be basically teaching the controversy. The economic system of 19th century britain was made possible in part because it lacked these worker and minority protections.
You know, there's a nice peaceful nation called "Switzerland" where gun laws are quite non-restrictive. They have very little violence, and it's heaven compared to the UK which is the most violent country in Europe. They've got good rifles, almost every citizen has one, and they don't go up clocktowers to shoot up people.
Maybe the problem is with the British people - and since a good lot of Americans are of British descent, that may be hereditary. Maybe Anglos are not very bright. Certainly, the British schooling system doesn't rank high by European standards. Aren't you sure that it's UK society that needs a big overhaul, instead of having to treat your "citizens" (sorry, subjects) like retarded kids?
Geeks are so full of shit that "beating the crap out of them" takes a whole new meaning.
Wrong. The ammunition for firearms in Switzerland is readily bought at gun stores, except for the GP90 used in the Stgw 90 (SIG SG-550) which can only be bought at ranges. However, the Stgw 90 fires the conventional 5.56x45mm round (.223 Remington) with no problem, it's just that it's not optimized for the weapon's rifling affecting the long-range performance. You can buy all the pistol and rifle ammo you want, you only need to show ID. The only ammo that was given out to reservists was a sealed can to be opened in case of conflict, but if you own an older Stgw 57 or a 9mm pistol, there's all the ammo you may ever want.
By the way, I'm not a US citizen so your "the US does worse" argument is doomed to failure - like the rest of your miserable loserboy life.
Have you ever wondered that most countries with low gun ownership never had any gun violence - and often they had little violence at all - to begin with? Have you ever thought for an instant that the case for violence is social AND cultural? And unless you address those problems, any restrictive laws are just plugs in a leaking dam?
No, you haven't because you don't have a brain. Begone, you silly creature. I banish you to the toilet bown.
Geeks are so full of shit that "beating the crap out of them" takes a whole new meaning.