Category Archives: crime

Thought policing nailed by the Court of Appeal

February 14, 2008 – 8:01 pm

There are a lot of nutjobs out there: Simple Sam, BlairSupporter and any number of Islamic loonies. Many of them are undeniably potentially dangerous but the Court of Appeal’s decision to remove the criminalisation thought and ‘mere preparatory’ acts from the Terrorism Act 2000 has to be applauded.
From now on there has to be a […]

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Scientology and DDos attacks

January 25, 2008 – 10:44 pm

Broadly Geeklawyer would say that Denial of Service Attacks were, and should be, criminal offences.
Ah yes, you say, a ‘but‘ is in the air;
There has been a recent sustained attempt to remove this evil quack religion/business/multi-level-marketing-scam from the Internet by online vigilantes who are engaged in DDos attacks.
Fucking good job too. Scientology is the scummy […]

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Sharia law in the UK?

January 21, 2008 – 7:03 pm

Geeklawyer doesn’t buy into the tabloid hysteria about all things Islamic, but one repellent aspect of Islam is Shariah law with it’s barbaric primitive and cretinous belief that cutting off the hands of thieves, stoning adulterers and coercing women into servility is good.
So he was somewhat horrified that it should gain any measure, even the […]

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Barristers strike

January 21, 2008 – 10:47 am

Geeklawyer fully supports his criminal colleagues in refusing to sign their new legal aid contracts. Respect to Simon Myerson and all the others.
Question: does this mean that unrepresented defendants could potentially have their cases dismissed for lack a lawyer? Bad very bad. But presumably all these cases will be adjourned until the mess is sorted […]

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Con and chips please - no vinegar

January 15, 2008 – 4:58 am

Geeklawyer notes, wearily, as does the rest of the world, the government’s latest techno wheeze for solving crime: inserting chips into criminals.
A few short years go we were told that electronic tags would solve the menace of innocent not-yet-convicted people committing new crime while on bail and also reduce prison overcrowding by allowing non-custodial options. […]

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Why do these people hate democracy?

January 12, 2008 – 10:24 am

Geeklawyer was outraged by the conduct of protesters outside the US Supreme Court. They were protesting about the Guantanamo bay Freedom camp. This is perplexing. There, undoubted terrorists are firmly fairly and gently encouraged by well trained compassionate counsellors to come to terms with their evil, and to repent and assist in the fight […]

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No paying for sex?

December 22, 2007 – 10:25 pm

Harriet Hymen is saying that we really should not be paying for sex and it should be illegal. Well, OK what she is saying is that there should be a ‘dialogue‘. When a government Minister says “let us have a dialogue” you know full well that a decision has been made, and the dialogue is […]

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Hate speech is fun, but hate music is even better

December 7, 2007 – 9:19 pm

Sodom and Gomorrah by Sea, or ‘Brighton‘ as its inhabitants have nicknamed it, has a problem with hate music. It seems that the council is concerned that those members of the right sort of minority group need protecting from being mocked by members of the wrong kind of minority group.
Apparently my Nigga Homies are dissin‘ […]

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Oh no, please - blind me, please!

December 6, 2007 – 10:05 am

This Maryland woman,

Mary Gates, is charged with three counts of solicitation of first-degree murder. The accusation is that she offered an undercover trooper $6,000 to kill her husband and then gave him the husband’s photograph and work schedule.
If Geeklawyer were the husband he’d give the hitman a big gun, paint a huge bulls-eye on his […]

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Amusing judicial putdowns 1

December 3, 2007 – 12:35 am

As mentioned previously Geeklawyer did a bit of minor criminal work recently: a bail application before a Crown Court judge. It was interesting to see how the other half live. The robing room was a pit of miserable despair; Legal aid barristers with 6 o’clock shadows (including some females) hovered around in threadbare suits several […]

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