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Members of Parliament Demand Explanation For Detention of David Miranda
megla writes "Yesterday Slashdot covered reports that David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald was detained. Now, various MPs and other public figures have expressed their unease over the detention and demanded justification for the incident from the police. Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald has threatened to be more aggressive with his reporting regarding the UK secret services and to release more documents about their activities, Brazil has stated that it expects no repeat of the incident, and one of the MPs involved in passing the anti-terrorism legislation used for the detention has said: 'those of us who were part of passing this legislation certainly would not have expected it to be used in a case of this kind.'"
Did anyone read David Miranda's rights before they arrested him?
I want to see a new law, named after him, which protects everyone's rights in the UK against such detention. That way everyone in the UK will be a beneficiary of this new "Miranda Rights" law. Of course, it should differ from the Miranda Rights in the US in fundamental ways so as to cause the most confusion possible. Especially in internet discussions.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
So, the only way to get our representatives to take note of civil rights abuses is to have them affect a protected class. I wonder how I get myself classified as a journalist?
Oh stop fussing. Innocent people have nothing to worry about.
...Because Obama really does write laws for the United Kingdom.
You do know that there are countries outside of the USA, right?
anyone else find it a little ironic that a man named miranda was stopped and stripped of his rights??
We all did, but we were exercising our right to remain silent.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!