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Old 03-11-2010, 08:26 PM #11
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Is that technically true or is that just your opinion?
Without the law, there would be no such thing as a citizen. How can you be prepared to define prisoners as citizens if...

a. They have broken the law of their nation state thereby failing to meet their responsibility as citizens

b. They have forfeited their right to liberty and privacy

Either way, the European Court of Human Rights cannot account for giving prisoners the same rights as law-abiding citizens. This is no surprise given that the hand-picked bureaucrats of the European commission were never elected to represent the interest of citizens in the first place.
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No matter that they act like senile 12-year-olds on the Today programme website - smoking illegal fags to look tough and cool. No matter that Amis coins truly abominable terms like 'the age of horrorism' and when criticised tells people to 'fuck off'. Surely we all chuckle at the strenuous ennui of his salon drawl. Didn't he once accidentally sneer his face off?
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