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Treason
I was thinking the other day about how treason is going to be used as the crime for extremist clerics here in sunny Britain. I'm fairly sure that treason is also the only crime left on our books where the sentence can go all the way up to death. This worries me a little.
August 9 2005, 11:56:33 UTC 6 years ago
August 9 2005, 12:15:35 UTC 6 years ago
Surely there are existing laws anyway to deal with such things. Aren't there a variety of incitement laws for example?
Personally I'm quite happy that if they don't want to live here, they should just leave or if they are spouting shite get booted out. Then again Charles Kennedy did make an interesting point saying that it only sent the problem elsewhere, and meant we lost whatever control we would have had over them... Perhaps it's better that they're here in Belmarsh or wherever than 'recruiting' in Pakistan or wherever...