Tuesday, 26 September 2017

Activist Found Guilty of Terror-Related Crime for Refusing to Disclose Passwords to U.K. Police

quote [ Rabbani said in a statement after the verdict that the judgment highlighted the “absurdity of the Schedule 7 law” and called for it to be reformed. “If privacy and confidentiality are crimes, then the law stands condemned,” he said. “They accept that at no point was I under suspicion, and that ultimately this was a matter of having been profiled at a port. ]

OK I need help here how the Fuck...No 5th amendment in Brittan?
[SFW] [Big Brother] [+3 WTF]
[by bbqkink@1:17amGMT]

Comments

bobolink said @ 1:50am GMT on 26th Sep [Score:1 Sad]
It's been 1984 in Britain for a long time. Terrorism laws trump traditional notions of justice. You can be held without habeas corpus under their terrorism laws.
cb361 said @ 6:39pm GMT on 26th Sep
The Cato Institute's Human Freedom Index ranks the US and UK quite closely overall, with slightly different freedoms in both countries. It ranks the UK slightly better on 'Rule of Law' and 'Safety and Security'. The US is slightly better for 'Laws and regulations that influence media content' and worse for ''freedom of foreign movement". I'm not sure what that is. Are you still not allowed to visit Cuba?

Both countries are way better than most countries of the world, but definitely not at the top.

Having said all that, I don't know if absolute freedom is something we should aspire to. We would have total freedom in a Mad Max wasteland, whereas the nature of civilisation imposes restrictions on freedom.
steele said @ 8:04pm GMT on 26th Sep
US terrorism laws suspended habeas corpus under Bush and Obama. I can't imagine it's been brought back under Trump.
bbqkink said @ 11:46pm GMT on 26th Sep
I think that was only for foreign nationals but I am not sure. I mean that is bad enough but not for US citizens. That was the basis of Gimo imprisonment if I'm right.
Naruki said @ 11:38am GMT on 28th Sep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2012
bbqkink said @ 3:20am GMT on 26th Sep [Score:1 Funny]
bbqkink said @ 1:21am GMT on 27th Sep [Score:1 Interesting]
Found the perfect candidate. steele you might want to give this guy a call.

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biblebeltdrunk said @ 7:45pm GMT on 26th Sep
bbqkink said @ 7:54pm GMT on 26th Sep
this comes down to Probable Cause which was not explained in the story.
bbqkink said @ 11:22pm GMT on 27th Sep

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