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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Bob696 on February 22, 2006, 22:05:41

Title: Be afraid .... be very afraid
Post by: Bob696 on February 22, 2006, 22:05:41

Lifted from the CRAG forum but nothing to do with greenlanes

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2049791,00.html

A couple of snippets

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Looking back at last week’s business in the Commons, the (new) Bill makes a mockery of the decisions MPs took. Carrying ID cards could be made compulsory, smoking in one’s own home could be outlawed and the definition of terrorism altered to make ordinary political protest punishable by life imprisonment. Nor will the Human Rights Act save us since the Bill makes no exception for it.

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The Bill, bizarrely, even applies to itself, so that ministers could propose orders to remove the limitations about two-year sentences and taxation. It also includes a few desultory questions (along the lines of “am I satisfied that I am doing the right thing?”) that ministers have to ask themselves before proceeding, all drafted subjectively so that court challenges will fail, no matter how preposterous the minister’s answer. Even these questions can be removed using the Bill’s own procedure. Indeed, at its most extreme, in a manoeuvre akin to a legislative Indian rope trick, ministers could use it to transfer all legislative power permanently to themselves.

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The Government claims that there is nothing to worry about. ..........  The minister is asking us to trust him, and, worse, to trust all his colleagues and all their successors.

Yeah right, the general public is that stupid ...... oh hang on a minute ........

Title: Be afraid .... be very afraid
Post by: suzota on February 22, 2006, 22:41:37

That is extremly worring.

They could in one stroke ban all 4x4's and we could do nothing about it.

Title: Be afraid .... be very afraid
Post by: Sheddy on February 22, 2006, 23:05:52

Its only a further undermining.  Its been going on since time immemorial.

Title: Be afraid .... be very afraid
Post by: Bulli on February 22, 2006, 23:22:23

Well, i must say im not surprised. New Tory have been uprooting democracy since they came to power and this frankly is beyond a joke.
Our hobby should be the least of our worries with that level of power anything could be done without due process.
Well I never voted for em and I sure as hell havent changed my opinion.
The sooner everyone wakes up and removes them from power the better.