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Re: [News] [SOT] Intellectual Monopoly/Lunacy Breaks Loose in the UK

  • Subject: Re: [News] [SOT] Intellectual Monopoly/Lunacy Breaks Loose in the UK
  • From: Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:14:28 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> | As a UK citizen, you no longer have any effective defence against a
> | US demand for deportation. Under the Extradition Act 2003 the US
> | can apply for a UK citizen to be extradited without having to
> | present any evidence to face charges of a crime committed in the US
> | – for which the UK citizen need not have been actually present.
> `----

This is one of the worst violations of civil rights I have ever heard
of, in a supposedly democratic society. Surely these totalitarian laws
can not be allowed to continue?

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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