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� June 11, 2006 - Manic New Labour's outlaws
"Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" was an early New Labour mantra. Then there was "I've got no reverse gear" in 2003, "Forward, not backward". All manic New Labour bullshit. Manic New Labour has created a whole class of outlaws in Britain, taking the law backward fifteen centuries to Anglo-Saxon times.
Jack Straw's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act created this new class of outlaws. You will have heard about not being able to present intercept evidence in a court of law. RIPA is the standard law that regulates investigations but anything discovered under RIPA cannot be put before a court. Imagine commiting crimes in the full view of the police knowing full well that you will never face a court for it. The touble is that a RIPA'd individual cannot be tried because his human right to a fair trial would be violated. They are outside the law, the new class of outlaws that mad Bliar & Co has created.
Unfortunately for the outlaws - in classic New Labour moves to avoid accountability and responsibility for its actions - they are not told that they are outlaws. RIPA orders are secret executive orders. They are New Labour's super way of dictating while hiding.
The clincher is this. If you are one of New Labour's outlaws, you depend on the state's agents to respect your rights e.g. your right not to be killed by the state, because it will never go before a court. So when somebody says "directly related to ongoing terrorist investigation", you'll know what they mean.
The state can specify special conditions on RIPA orders. A few weeks ago the press reported criminal records being applied to individuals' criminal records without bothering with the formalities of needing to commit the crime or be tried in a court of law, etc. I wonder if the Home Sec could decide to apply fake convictions under a RIPA order - put him down as an e.g. armed robber so that he will never get employed?
I hope that our matey from SpyBlog comments on this.
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