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Rights round up: 29th March 2009

Published on 29 March 2009 in Civil Liberties. 8 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Cops:

Because his brother serves in the Metropolitan Police Geeklawyer is rarely shocked by UK police behaviour: he sees them from the inside. There are far far too may idiots in the filth. It is these idiots that seem to be in charge of policing the G20 protests. Apparently (via CharonQC) they are, they have said, "up for it" if violence breaks out at the protests.

Yesterday, the Metropolitan police was understood to have contacted a number of protest groups warning that the main day of protest, Wednesday, 1 April would be “very violent”, and senior commanders have insisted that they are “up for it, and up to it”, should there be any trouble.

Quite how, in the absence of a crystal ball, they know that Wednesday will be 'very violent', unless they plan to make it so, is unclear. The inevitable suspicion is that this is one prediction that will become self-fulfilling. Geeklawyer is too young to remember the Miners strikes of the 1980s but recalls the stories of taunting & provocative police waving their pay packets in front of wage-less striking miners. The 'up for it' language from police commanders will certainly have reached the well armed police grunts facing protesters. This makes aggression and provocation against protesters almost inevitable. The Met for their part will then claim to have reacted 'appropriately and proportionately'. Geeklawyer is betting on how often the hyper controversial Section 44 anti-terrorism powers will be abused to crush peaceful protest and harass those rude enough to want politicians to really really listen to them.

Religion:

Geeklawyer is no Islamophobe, preferring to despise all religion equally, save Zen Buddhism and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The news that the UN has passed a non-binding resolution making defamation of religion a breach of Human Rights is truly appalling. Pakistan was the sponsor and the text says:

"Defamation of religious is a serious affront to human dignity leading
to a restriction on the freedom of their adherents and incitement to
religious violence," the adopted text read, adding that "Islam is
frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and
terrorism."

But as The Ottawa representative said: "It is individuals who have rights, not religions," which is manifestly right. Islamic loonies are their own worst enemies and this stuff plays into the hands of racists and US neo-con psychos.

Comic pr0n:

Neo-Labour's obsession with legislating about anything to with sexual morality continues apace. Failure to understand the issues is not an impediment, of course, and if one can tag on the pedopanic label, well, how can one lose? The latest issue is that in a desire to legislate against cartoon kiddy pr0n it may be that they will kill off meritorious art such as Manga or Alan Moore novels and derived films. Under this legislation it doesn't even matter if the representation is of an adult if it also looks childlike.

Internal travel passports:

NO2ID are pointing out that the government will soon require you to have ID cards to travel within the UK if travel involves air or boats. How long before this is needed for train tickets an petrol purchases? All to combat terrorism of course.

Grievous insults:

Finally Geeklawyer has been hurtfully described by Jeremy at the IPKat blog as the Jade Goody of the law blogging world. Prof Phillips was once a friend, but he is now dead to Geeklawyer. A lawsuit for defamation is currently being prepared by feared defamation ambulance chasers Messrs Carter Fuck.

Scientology and DDos attacks

Published on 25 January 2008 in crime and deranged ranting. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

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 scam product of the fraudster Ron L. Hubbard who confessed to a friend that creating one's own religion was a great way to make a fortune. Geeklawyer would not, of course, encourage assist aid or incite the commission of any offence, except the murder of Tony Blair, but he remains supportive of their objectives. If they wish dogged vicious intractable and determined pro-bono legal aid in the event of their capture then they may have Geeklawyer's services gratis.

On a side note, Tom 'Loony Laugh' Cruise has recently been widely mocked for his embarrassing weird video that he has been trying to remove from the Internet because it demonstrates that not only is he a shit actor (Did you see "War of the Worlds"?) but a loony recruitment whacko for his pet cult. And he is, of course, not even slightly a closet homosexual.

Sharia law in the UK?

Published on 21 January 2008 in crime, politics and religion. 12 Comments Tags: , , , , .

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 merest toehold, of recognition by UK law as proposed by the Muslim community. Their pitch starts of promisingly: "radical Islam is a myth: we only want personal law dealt with under Sharia, not penal or worship law". It then proceeds at a rapid pace downhill by asserting that by cutting off hands we could be a crime free society like Saudi Arabia.

Call him fussy but Geeklawyer will take the odd burglary or mugging rather than live in a despotic totalitarian hell-hole presided over by degenerate racist oligarchs who oppress their citizens' civil liberties in order to maintain their own wealth and power.

If he wanted all of that he'd vote New Labour.

British government complicit in torture

Published on 13 September 2007 in Civil liberties & human rights. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , .

Tarek Dergoul is suing the British government over complicity in his his torture at Guantanamo by America. The story is the usual one: Mr Dergoul like so many other victims of the Evil Empire's "War on Terror" was in the wrong place at the wrong time. When the US offers a 'no questions asked' large bounty on the heads of suspected Al Queda militants then the first thing enterprising locals do is grass up innocent foreigners in exchange for $5,000.

British citizens Moazzem Begg and Omar Deghayes suffered the same fate; mind you they were coloured, so obviously there was a much stronger likelihood of their guilt than for a nice pretty looking middle class white woman like Kate McCann.

MI5 & MI6 officers who used the false work names of "Andrew" and "Matt" interrogated Dergoul. No-one is suggesting that they sexually abused him, or insulted his religion, or beat him with baseball bats, or sprayed pepper spray directly into his eyeballs, or made him eat pork, or had a prostitute sexually humiliate him, or forced him to stand blindfolded in a stress position for 18 hours until he shit himself.

No. These agents of the British state interrogated a fellow British citizen, a citizen whom they had undertaken - and certified on his passport to do so, to protect. Rather, having been fully aware of what was being done to him waited until it had been done and then took advantage of his terrorized condition to pursue questioning in the hope that he was so weakened he might reveal if he was guilty or not. All in the interests of national security of course; and the government has unconditionally condemned torture. But not the incidentals of torture, it seems.

"Andrew" and "Matt" should be prosecuted. The government should be held liable.

But Dergoul will fail. Miserably. All the way to House of Sycophants Lords.

Photographic memory having lawyer bastards

Published on 7 April 2007 in legal profession. 8 Comments Tags: , , .

Geeklawyer is going to annoy Ruthie, yet again, by talking about her. The thing Geeklawyer hate most of all about Ruthie, and it is you may take it on trust a long long list, is that she remembers all our conversations. All of them, in detail. It's impressive but annoying. She can quite correctly tell him that he said she should not to post on religion when he does a religious post. Dammit, busted.

Geeklawyer remembers a barrister who had a photographic memory. He would read a pile of bundles as high as himself, then trundle into court and arrange them next to him and not open a single one in the entire trial. Not one, ever. And he would say:

"My Lord on bundle X, Tab Y, at page Z in paragraph 230 on line 4 it says and I quote '...' "

He would do this repeatedly on all points, even minor ones and not just for the legs of the case. Flash bastard.

Tomology: loony star – loony money – loony religion

Published on 18 October 2006 in humour. 5 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , .

Geeklawyer often wishes he was obscenely rich. Until that glorious event comes to happen he will have to settle for merely being obscene. And rich.

Buuuut, then again. Look at Tom Cruise.

No really, do look or this post won't make any fucking sense.

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