Category Archives: Civil liberties & human rights

Motorists right to silence

June 29, 2007 – 6:50 am

Crusty old Geeklawyer remembers the glorious old days when we had an effective right to silence. That suffered under the first of the new breed of populist Home Secretarys, Micheal Howard who lit on it to build his reputation as a man who would tackle the scourge of society: civil liberties & human rights. And […]

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“Taking Liberties”

June 17, 2007 – 3:41 pm

You’ve had the laws now go and see the film.
Geeklawyer went to see it with Evil Dave at the Curzon. If like Geeklawyer you are a bit of a civil liberties loony this won’t tell you much that you didn’t already know. Geeklawyer spent most of the film pointing at people on the screen and […]

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The final act of the rogue?

May 27, 2007 – 11:34 am

One can at least say that the Dear Leader is consistent. Consistently hypocritical that is: launch a war on terror to defend our freedoms while hitting the civil liberties ‘delete’ button to help the fight. The paradox seems to elude him.

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OK, civil liberties - a double edged sword?

May 21, 2007 – 6:05 pm

Story here about some anti-abortion bigot who berated a clinic worker in crude abusive and intimidating manner. Initially convicted and fined he was eventually acquitted.
Not an entirely satisfactory result: but as Voltaire said:
 
I may disagree with everything you say but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.”
Mind you, he was a […]

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Our heroic boys acquitted - thankfully

May 12, 2007 – 7:45 pm

It looks like the IPCC have finally acquitted our boys in the thin blue line of the killing of supposedly innocent De Menezes. De Menezes was an illegal immigrant electrician with no public record of supporting the Dear Leader’s War on Terror and that in itself means that there are reasonable grounds for asking “was […]

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Embryonic disaster

April 10, 2007 – 7:34 pm

Geeklawyer sided with Natallie Evans in her quest to use her & her ex-boyfriends stored embryos to have a child. One doesn’t know what the true background to the breakup were. Howard Johnston reeks of a dumped man seeking a revenge as cold as the ex-couples embryos, but maybe not its only a hunch. Geeklawyer […]

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e-voting - electoral fraud coming soon to a polling booth near you

March 19, 2007 – 6:21 pm

Becky Hogge, near divine ORG goddess, has asked Geeklawyer to mention ORG’s e-voting initiative for May. They need volunteers in certain areas to observe the trials of e-voting. Lawyers would be particularly well suited. Training given and it would allow you to play a much needed part in directly protecting an important emerging technology for […]

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Militant Oldies

February 27, 2007 – 8:31 pm

Yet another pensioner is risking jail for refusing to pay their Council Tax. When it was just one or two, they generated general sympathy; surely they were acting as a consequence of desperation (‘desperation’ perhaps - Geeklawyer) or dementia?
Now there’s a whole bleedin’ grey army of them failing to cough up, clogging up the courts, […]

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Terrorist? why no - merely misunderstood protestor

February 26, 2007 – 9:24 pm

Geeklawyer is a little dismayed by the over compliant SIAC ruling that Jordan really really would not torture a man they would ordinarily like to torture and murder if only the UK would surrender him to them.

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Villains & Heros

February 14, 2007 – 8:17 pm

So, some slime-bag has been charged with the rape & murder of a two year old toddler. Frankly a fair trial is more than this slime-bag deserves: a lot of wasted expense to protect someone who’s clearly guilty. This government has done a lot to rebalance the justice system in favour of the victim, […]

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