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• shadowfirebird commented on Brit MP saw undercover cops egging crowd to riot at G20
  re: the George Galloway letter. I can confirm that there was a Daily Mail article, written by a DM journalist, not Mr Galloway. It's gone now, but I did tumblelog it with a brief quote here. On the other hand, it was a Daily Mail article. (They do have a rep for unsubstantiated shock pieces.) I'm not sure distrust of Galloway's letter on the basis of his character really counts as an Ad Hominem attack. When you're judging whether to trust someone's account, you have to take it in the light of their character. On the third hand, this new...
• winjer commented on Brit MP saw undercover cops egging crowd to riot at G20
  Photographing police officers is NOT a criminal offence....
• shadowfirebird commented on Brit MP saw undercover cops egging crowd to riot at G20
  @Winjer: Agreed in the sense that people are not getting arrested en masse for photographing police officers. I'm even willing to concede that it might be the case that the law wasn't designed to make photographing police officers, soldiers, etc. an arrestable offense. BUT. In a strict reading of the letter of the law as passed, it certainly IS possible to convict someone for taking a photograph of a police officer, especially if the circumstances made it more than usually useful to an imagined terrorist. Of course, it would also depend on the judge. (IANAL -- just trying to distill...
• Padraig commented on Brit MP saw undercover cops egging crowd to riot at G20
  Here we are, seeking out the Reds Trying to keep the communists in order Just remember when you're sleeping in your beds They're only two days drive from the Texas border How can a country large as ours Be scared of such a threat Well if they won't work for us They're against us you can bet They may be sovereign countries But you folks at home forget That they all want what we've got But they don't know it yet Trala la la, Trala la la, Trala la la, Trala la la, We're making the world safe for capitalism...
• mackenzi commented on Star Trek original bridge and action figures reissue
  I want that!...