17-05-2009, 11:08 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:The terror laws, as we know now, have been applied for absolutely non-terrorist activities by state authorities --- for example, councils using these laws to snoop on parents seeking to place their children in certain higher grade schools, in the belief that the parents were lying about their catchment area. The only accurate use of the terror laws in this (and hundreds of other similar cases) is that it has been a terrible fookin' use of completely-stark-bollock-naked terrible laws...
Not to mention the seizure of Icelandic assets in the UK as the state was going through the banking crisis.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.