[James Cameron: The Terminator]
I agree entirely with what Anna Raccoon says about the apparent loss of the authority of the High Court, which has been defied once by the Speaker of the Commons and again by a chief constable.
One of the purposes of government acceptable to libertarians is the maintenance of the rule of law. [...]
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“I hate these press cases.”
Posted in law, tagged High Court on 19 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Too busy making our own entertainments
Posted in law, tagged intellectual property on 5 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It says on The Register that the government will increase the fines for all kinds of ‘intellectual property offences’ by a factor of 10, to a maximum of £50,000.
They have, of course, carried out a ‘consultation’ of the entertainment industry greedheads, who were apparently more or less unanimous that the fines should increase by an [...]
Electronic witchfinding
Posted in law, tagged polygraph on 5 April, 2009 | 7 Comments »
An article in the Independent appears to confirm what was read out on the BBC earlier:
Sex offenders will be made to take lie detector tests as part of their probation conditions on release from prison, the Ministry of Justice said yesterday.
Of course nobody cares about ’sex offenders’. Not even when they consider that this remarkably [...]
‘Human’ rights
Posted in law, tagged Human Rights Act on 22 March, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Devil:
…the Human Rights Act is not—and has never been—welcomed by those of us who believe in freedom.
The Human Rights Act is poppycock.
There are two human rights: the making of fire, and the use of tools. It is these qualities (fire-making and tool-using) that set us apart from the other higher primates and define us [...]
New orders
Posted in law, tagged political control on 19 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The attentive Anna Raccoon quotes what appears to be an inadvertant disclosure by the prime minister:
We have negotiated with the building societies and banks a six-month moratorium for people who are faced with mortgage repossession. We have sent new orders to our courts that lenders cannot, as a first resort, go for repossession; they have [...]
Gardeners’ Question Time
Posted in law, tagged lettuce on 13 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Ambush Predator, quoting the BBC, on the singular crime of stuffing lettuce up one’s nose:
Shannon, who was prosecuted under the miscellaneous provisions in the Public Order Act, could have been jailed for up to six months.
Bloody BBC! How many people do they pay as ‘researchers’? How many of these actually ‘research’ anything?
Or have they [...]
Attack warning amber
Posted in law, tagged defamation, internet on 12 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Article in The Register about a decision of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of internet defamation:
Publishers’ indefinite liability for defamatory material in their online archives is not a restriction on their rights to free speech, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled. The decision backs a 160-year-old rule of English [...]
The point of the whole affair
Posted in law on 1 March, 2009 | 8 Comments »
David Davis, at the Libertarian Alliance, has written an open letter to Sir Fred Goodwin.
He says that if Sir Fred does not defend himself against arbitrary expropriation
…a bad precedent will have been set, and everyone’s legally-agreed property will be under an existential threat.
Quite.
I am such a cynical old git that I can quite see Sir [...]
Dangerous to all
Posted in law, tagged pensions on 1 March, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It says in the Telegraph that
The Government is prepared to change the law to strip former RBS chief Sir Fred Goodwin of his £650,000-a-year pension, Commons Leader Harriet Harman has hinted. Ms Harman said the payout was “money for nothing” and vowed that the ex-Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive would not end up with [...]
Damn-right dept.
Posted in law, tagged self-defence on 27 February, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Trooper Thompson:
…the one thing the oligarchy hate is a man who defends himself. They want us all passive slaves, begging for protection from the state.
For myself I believe that a charge of murder against the lorry driver is unlikely to succeed, precisely because of the condition of premeditation. I think that he is far more [...]
