What a total fucking cunt you are. Fuck off.
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Theyâve already used existing âanti-extremistâ laws to target Labour, so it looks like everyone but Tories are included.
Well, so be it then. Iâd advise everyone but Tories blogging from the UK to set the default (maybe a 24-hour delay from last post) to âNext post pending approval by Government censors.â And then submit all posts to the Government for approval.
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That might be a bit obscure for those of us who were neither around at the time nor for the later movie.
What is the maximum safe dose? I seem to recall others who figured a tot of totalitarianism was just the thing, but misjudged a bit.
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Theyâve already used existing âanti-extremistâ laws to target Labour, so it looks like everyone but Tories are included.
The US court system has a notion of strict scrutinywhich it uses to review laws that abridge fundamental rights.
To pass strict scrutiny, the legislature must have passed the law to further a âcompelling governmental interest,â and must have narrowly tailored the law to achieve that interest.
Now, the UK isnât the US, and the notion of having primary legislation conform to a superior body of law may be somewhat alien (especially in light of plans to withdraw from the ECHR Council of Europe, but the phrases ânarrowly tailoredâ and âcompelling governmental interestâ do strike me as appropriate criteria to judge any such legislation. Obviouslly, the government has a compelling interest in stopping the idiots such as those who murdered Lee Rigby and those who carried out the 7/7 bombings, and those who recieve training from the âIslamic Stateâ.
The question is whether the law is narrowly tailored to serve those interests, and not less compelling ones in the meantime. And without seeing the legislation, no one can really judge.
As for targeting Labourites, well, that would be an argument against ânarrow tailoringâ wouldnât it? Please provide a cite.
Good legislation in this area might be possible, but a bad bill seems inevitable.
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Here. Have a vintage article.
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