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2 by pyro-manic
SG Guard
=D> Good stuff.
Any fool can pull a trigger...
:flag209:
As the madmen play on words
And make us all dance to their song
To the tune of starving millions
To make a better kind of gun...

7 by Flipside
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Well, it does quote both sides of the story both regarding the laws and the leadership position, and in the UK, the opposition parties tend to call for resignations if the PM so much as forgets to tie his shoelaces. There will always be slight bias, but personally I don't really see much.

But then, in all honesty, this is the result I wanted, so maybe I'm the one who's biased ;)
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9 by Flipside
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Indeed, but it didn't go the other way, despite the whips being out in force (whips are 'cronies' of the PM who make sure all his MP's vote the way he wants them to, a truly non-democratic idea imho).

This was vastly unpopular in the UK, it went against our constitution in every way possible, and, to my mind, went completely against what we are trying to represent. If we get bombed for trying to be fair, equal and without bias, then at least we kept hold of our values and our respect for freedom, which already makes us far far more than those who did the bombing.

It's one of those conundrums, 'How commited to your cause are you?'. If your life is threatened and you are a person of peace and freedom, do you remain who you have chosen to be, or do you throw it all away and drop to the level of the person threatening you?

Not an easy question to answer, but, if there IS a God, I'd rather stand before Him knowing that, no matter what the world did to me, I did not allow it to corrupt what I myself felt was 'right'.
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14 by Rand al'Thor
Bazooka Fodder
Hurrah, now the police can only hold you for 28 days instead of 90. Thats up from what? 2 days? If even that. What evidence do they need exactly, to hold you on terrorist suspicion?

"the proposals were not "at the core" of the government's counter-terrorism plans"

Ah yes, those would the ones that curtail basic human rights. I'm just glad that Britains term as head of the EU has been considered uneventful so far because I far as I've heard that the angle they'd be taking otherwise.

15 by Flipside
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It was originally a 14 day limit (and this was doubled from 7 days only 2 years ago, for exactly the same reasons) before permission had to be required from a judge. What the police wanted was permission to hold someone for up to 3 months before needing to get permission to extend that date, and that is purely for the purposes of investigation, i.e, 'We Fink you dun a bad fing' and then lock you up for 3 months while they try and figure out what bad thing you did.

Edit : Any Pratchett fan would know what I mean when I say 'Detritus thinking' was starting to prevail. And for those that don't...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detritus_%28Discworld%29
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