42 [Six Weeks] Is Not The Answer

The same ego driven phenomenon that causes bidders on ebay to pay exorbitant amounts for items just so they are the winner (while the item can be freely bought elswhere for less) is perhaps what drives Gordon on his 42 day/six weeks obsession. Except there’s rather more at stake than a deleted CD. However it has also brought up a nostalgic reminder of the terminal years of the last tory administration, where the hopelessly corrupt and roundly hated government was so low on seats and support a tiny number of Loyalist Ulster wankers actually held immense power over the entire country-

Extending pre-charge detention from 28 days is opposed by the Conservatives, Lib Dems and 30 or so Labour MPs. The result is expected to be so close that it might hinge on how the nine Democratic Unionist Party MPs vote. To defeat the government, some 33 Labour MPs need to rebel, assuming all other MPs – including those of the DUP – also vote against it.

I expect even now Gordon is telling the Orange eejits he’ll make sure the RUC never gets disbanded or properly investigated for its collusion with them and pro-British occupation terrorist chums. Or maybe he is just doing the old steering govt. contracts to their constituencies scam. Regardless this is a replay of the twilight years of the loathed tory regime, where politics overrode all else and law & order hang ’em/flog ’em causes were played for all they were worth nevermind the damage to the country or our freedom. D-Notice has a good example in the Cannabis law changes-

A total of 669 replies were obtained. A total of 121 supported them, 278 wanted it to remain class C and the rest (124) wanted it to be legalised. Others also said the the classification system was out-of-date and needed urgent change.

In other words, the government saw that over 80% of correspondents didn’t support an upgrading, but the Home Office decided to do it anyway.

Of course you may want to trust the police with locking you up for six weeks without any need for proper evidence, after all it’s not like they are incompetent Man In Diabetic Coma Tased Because He Looked ‘Egyptian’

Murderous-

The IPCC also said the tradition of police officers being allowed to write up their notes together should stop. It said it could be significant that none of the 17 civilian witnesses in the tube carriage – who were not allowed to confer with other passengers before giving statements – heard officers shout: “Armed police.” All eight police officers on the train recall hearing this being shouted, the report said.

According to the brothers, one officer emerged from the car carrying a handgun. A second officer allegedly shouted “shoot him, shoot him, put him down.” Mohammed Kahar said that he then replied: “Don’t shoot me, my hands are in the air.” The brothers say they were manhandled off the motorcycle and one was pushed to the ground while the other was handcuffed. They claim that they were called “Paki”, “tossers” and “wankers”.

Or whacking each other, ahem-

A police officer who was shot dead by a colleague during a training exercise in Manchester was hit by a shell designed to stop dangerous criminals in cars.

Or adopting a Gitmo attitude-

When Farrah arrived at Paddington Green, her clothes were taken from her. Suffering from diarrhoea, she was in constant pain. She described the basic washing and hygiene facilities in detention. “There was no toilet roll and only paper towels for body drying. I wasn’t even allowed to comb my hair.”

Exercise consisted of walking around in a circle in a small yard behind the station for five minutes while officers held guard dogs in each corner. Farrah said: “I was frightened of the dogs so rather than getting any exercise, I just found these exercise periods really frightening.”

Or prey to racist paranoia-

It is worth noticing that in talking to one of my colleagues, a police officer remarked that the incident would never have occurred if the persons involved had been “blonde, Swedish PhD students”

Or do they just love Swedes, hmmm? So what other countries, bastions of liberty, have similar periods of detention without charge…erm any?

Australia – 12 days maximum
Ireland – 7 days maximum
France – 6 days maximum
Spain – 5 days maximum
Russia – 5 days maximum
Italy – 4 days maximum
Germany – 2 days maximum
United States – 2 days maximum
New Zealand – 2 days maximum
Canada – 1 day maximum
No other country with a common law system has sought such a lengthy period of detention without charge.

Woohoo UK number 1!!! Take that you soft criminal loving terrorist coddler’s, like any of them have evah experienced any terrorist attacks!

Just how the fuck is the UK even thinking about increasing the 28/four week limit, that is bad enough, if there is any debate it should be about lowering that. The hangover of an imperial mind, of state violence and repression to achieve Her Majesty’s Governments objectives. This is the sad fucking legacy of the UK, we still have a Royal family, a system of elite education to maintain our ruling class going back centuries, the memory of a world where the sun never set on the British Empire. That was why the WarOnTerror (TM) was such an easy sell here, all those zombie tendencies that refuse to die could flower anew in a fashionable contemporary era of authoritarianism. And the icing on the cake was it was the way to finally kill any last vestiges of leftwing doubt in the Labour leadership. The American Empire gets its poodle/monkey and at the same time ensures the left is repressed and fragmented in Britain. So at the eve of another sellout are there at least 33 (although more given the DUP are most likely bought off) Labour MP’s willing to stand up for those blue remembered hills of a Britain that once actually fought fascism instead of inviting it in for tea and letting it shag the cat?

Venezuela Fighting Microsoft

Via BoRev.Net–

(Reuters) – Four developing countries have appealed against the adoption of Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) Office Open XML document format as an international standard, the International Organisation for Standardisation said on Monday.

ISO said in a statement the national standards bodies of Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela had appealed against the positive outcome of a vote it held in March after a controversial fast-track ratification process.

It gave no details of the substance of the appeals. At the time of the vote, several parties complained that the discussion and subsequent voting process was muddled and rushed.

Gaining the final ISO stamp of approval would help Microsoft win more public-sector contracts, as some government bodies are nervous about storing archives in a proprietary format.

The adoption of OOXML as an ISO standard will remain on hold until the appeals are resolved, which could take several months, ISO said.

Critics say OOXML is not fully translatable into other document formats, notably the open-source Open Document Format that is already recognized as an international standard.

I enjoyed posting this… using my Mac & Firefox.

Government Won’t Do Anything About The Commercialisation Of Slavery Records

This was the Number 10 petition

“A UK company is currently placing online colonial records of 3.000.000 Africans, relating to their enslavement. This is a corporate attempt to cash in on the increased interest during the bicentenary year. African people and descendants of slaves should not have to pay for such a service. This should be a free to view document, with all records being made public so the history can be known by all. Please sign this petition to get all govenment records made available free of charge to everyone.”

This was the UK Government’s pathetic response-

The original versions of these records are available for anyone to go and see, free of charge, at The National Archives’ reading rooms in Kew.

These records have been open to the public in the United Kingdom since 1821, initially at the Colonial Office in London where colonial governors were instructed to send copies for public inspection and, since 1862, at The National Archives (and formerly the Public Record Office).

Additionally, The National Archives have also produced a number of published resources to help Caribbean people to trace their roots. They have published, for example, two editions of its popular guidebook, Tracing your West Indian Ancestors, as well as six free research guides on the history of Britain’s involvement in slavery, the slave trade and its abolition.

The Government believes that organisation and individuals should have access to information, on non-exclusive terms, so that they can provide enhanced information-based products. The documents were therefore provided in response to an application from a commercial organisation who wanted to re-use the information as part of a service it wished to provide which included a searchable index of the names of enslaved people and slaveholders. Any such services provided are additional and complement the free service already offered by The National Archives. They are not a service provided by The National Archives.

We hope this response is helpful.

Well it is in so much as it shows what disingenuous corporate whores you are, making the records freely available in one office in London is not making them as available as putting them on the web. Something in this day and age that should be a standard procedure for democratising information. Allowing this to done by a profit making concern is to allow the freedom of the information to be put behind a pay wall on the web. You have pretended not fighting to keep this information freely available is to keep it…freely available. You have privatised wider access to these records. You mealy mouthed lawyerly parsing cowardly motherfuckers.