"So let me get this straight. You do not think either side should be represented by attorneys?" Lets not use attorney please, it doesn't translate to the UK, it's American, therefore irrelevant. Anyway, moving on.....A Court hearing should be 2 things, an examination of fact and and exercise in ensu...
Jump to post"Because, like, we can totally trust the government and every more-powerful entity to be fair and just, all the time. " Obviously not, because if your Government is like ours, its made up mostly of ....Lawyers! So under my plan, it matters not much, as the Government would mostly be joining the lawy...
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Geez, let the bastards smoke. "
Exactly! Let the Health Nazi's feast elsewhere.
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Forgot one...defense contractors, or anyone else involved in the military-industrial complex plaguing the USA and other countries. "
Especially ones who are lawyers?
"If that is your goal then just allow marijuana. That will really calm the population down, and its effects are no worse than cigarettes." As Bennett says, there's a problem with that. Secondly, not everyone who smokes takes weed. and thirdly, having been a Policeman for a long time, it doesn't calm...
Jump to post"When saying attorneys are scummy, you are being a bit broad. I definitely agree that personal injury attorneys (the ones who have all the billboards) are scummy, but that is only one type of practice. Many law offices do not advertise and are much more respectable." Broad? No. All of them, there's ...
Jump to postLawyers! Line them all up against a wall, and bang bang bang! 2 reasons, 1, they were the enemy when I was a Policeman. Although always good to argue a point of law with them and win! 2. Compensation Culture. A spoof Ad in the UK went something like this: "Been injured by a trip or fall? Then look w...
Jump to post"And where does leaving prison with lung cancer from second hand smoke because your cell-mate smokes four packs a day fit in with "rehabilitation"?" Simple to solve that one, don't mix smokers and non smokers in a cell. Apart from that, prisons are a pressure cooker. You can keep in under control if...
Jump to postOffloaded The problem isn't one of what we did in the last 10 years, it has it roots long before that. Fundamentalist Islam cannot exist in an island surrounded by 'Western' values, quite clearly, because those values are too much of a temptation. It's long been known that The hard line fundamentali...
Jump to post"NATO should have thought about that one before bombing Gaddafi, and the EU as well, well before suporting the Arab Springs. But hey, the latest 50 years of Western Middle East policy has usually been complete and utter shit. " Bombing Libya made no difference, nor did Iraq and Afgan. It's something...
Jump to post"Terrorism is an ever real threat and must be dealt with. So what is you solution?" While I agree with the what you say about not changing the rule of law, I am left wondering exactly how we are going to deal with the problem of Islamic Fundamental Terrorism. The tactics from the past aren't as effe...
Jump to post"Yes! I've said it before and will say it again and again and again: we'll lose Western Civilization without firing a shot. The very Brits who go on a nice beach vacation there probably don't bat an eye at how the demographics of their own nation are being radically upended. " It's every country in ...
Jump to post"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." So says the 2nd amendment. A well regulated Militia? Interesting point that one. The <acronym title="Narrandera (NRA / YNAR), Australia - New South Wales"...
Jump to post"Great comments from an Australian"
He sums it all up..........
Tommy "i understand in the UK you still pretty much have the right to own a gun, right? As long as you can store it safely and it is a smoothbore rifle with less than 4 rounds total capacity. Somehow rifles and shotguns aren´t used much for murder.... !" Ah, "right's". No, you don't have any such ri...
Jump to post"Quoting bjcc (Reply 136): I wouldn't mark them down as just another lobby group. Actually they are one of the great civil rights groups in the world. People like yourself tend to be ignorant of that fact." Yes, a great civil liberty group. One that actively condones the deaths of 32,000 of it's own...
Jump to post"The nastiest beer I've ever had was Guinness. "
Forgive him Lord, he knows not what he says.........
Guinness is an acquired taste to be fair, but once you have acquired it.......
Yes diamond, how dare we. I mean every insane American has the right to a gun, just in case of revolution. Oh I can't be bothered with trying to be subtle, you'd never follow it anyway. Read ...Sorry, clearly you have difficulty with reading, watch your own news numbskull. 32,000 reasons every year ...
Jump to post"Let's be real, the <acronym title="Narrandera (NRA / YNAR), Australia - New South Wales">NRA</acronym> only cares about one thing and that is what will generate more revenue for the gun manufacturers. They are just like any other lobby and the more fear they spread the more people out there will go...
Jump to post"Not to distract from the main purpose of this thread, but if you read the biographies of the founding fathers of the U.S., you'd find that there were few unanimously held beliefs other than desiring independence from England." Utterly irrelevant. Do you or any of the gun nutters seriously think tha...
Jump to post"The bodies aren't even burried yet and the gun grabbers are out in full force. Good to see the mouthbreathers from the left are here today. Have some damn respect." Respect? How about, instead of your weak attempt at deflection you respect the victims right to life? Instead of your self interested ...
Jump to post"If you watch the full video this idiot cop was spoiling to get nasty with someone, he appears on the edge the whole time. As for the two guys approaching him, there was no need to pull a weapon on a couple of kids. " You make an assumption in the first part of your comment kiwi, and then follow tha...
Jump to post"If he had a prior drug charge, it's likely that he wasn't able to legally posses a firearm. So go after whoever gave him the gun, they're just as responsible here." No one is disputing that. But it does nicely avoid saying what is obvious. It is your own 2nd Amendment that is at fault. That and a s...
Jump to post"No this isn't what the founding fathers had in mind when the constitution was written. " No, thats what I thought. In fact it's what every right minded and sensible human being would think! Worryingly, it seems many of your Countrymen don't fall into those categories! Its worrying that you kill 30,...
Jump to postSky News in the UK is reporting that 1. He has previous 2. He was bought the gun as a birthday present. You have to wonder at a number of things here, but seriously, do you really think your founding fathers had this in mind in their writing of the US constitution? Do you really think that a vague o...
Jump to post"Quoting fr8mech (Reply 26): Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being. Just because they've legalised it doesn't mean it's not murder." It does actually. Murder is (in UK and therefore most common law jurisdictions, and paraphrased in almost every other, including Germany) the UNLAWFUL killin...
Jump to postMoo Stop digging. "No, they should not, because that way you end up with a massive range of sentencing going on - guidelines, limits and minimum terms were introduced for precisely that reason. It is a judges job to uphold the law as it was written at the time of the offence, and they do that within...
Jump to postYour post is entirely incoinsistant! For starters, the expression you used is inherently racist. Why? Simple, the definition of racist is what someone says it is. I find what you said to be, and I know a number of others who do as well. It is ergo racist. Thats the end of the discussion I'm afraid. ...
Jump to postThe Law Lords do not sit in the House of Lords due to their position, they hold the position of Law Lord due to their qualification in the judiciary. In other words, you've just revamped what I said........Please don't, all it does it show you can't think for yourself. "Because that's what they are ...
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You start with saying it's not racist, then go onto to say that its sometimes found to be. Which is it?
"You lot have done a fair bit of that yourselves. What Americans speak nowadays is linguistically more similar to English spoken in the 18th century, when we parted company with your German-speaking king than what y'all (sorry, couldn't resist) speak these days is to its forebears" You mean you didn...
Jump to post"Gallipoli is likely best remembered in the movie done of it about 25 years ago. Gallipoli has become a symbol of gross incompetence of military leadership of the UK at that time, putting their colonial men in a 2nd class status, expendable. The disclosures of the disastrous UK military decisions to...
Jump to postYou are all American.
You are discussing a Langague called English, something you have already butchered.
So the only remaing point is can you be understood? As sins against the English Tongue go, if indeed it is a sin, it is of minor concern.
"Interesting that you mention Christianity then, as the sole reason Christianity lost its sway in those things here in the UK was due to the decline in Christianity itself. We still have major figures in the Church of England sitting in the House of Lords solely through their position rather than an...
Jump to post" It's just people calling a spade a spade, and that is protected speech." In the Uk you would have just said something (apparently) deeply disrespectful and rasist.....Or in sensible speak, you would have said something that someone will then say they found offensive, usually as an excuse for thier...
Jump to post"The fallacy is in thinking that politicians of any persuasion can actually exert influence over the things that affect us all - like the global economy." Agreed, up to a point. The reality is that we have see saw politics in the UK. Both sides can fix it, and in reality in much the same ways, altho...
Jump to postThe SNP are in it for the Scots, no one else. Is that a bad thing? no, not for the SNP, but for the UK yes. Should she hold the sword over Millibands head, or more properly the strings, will the UK be run for the UK's benifit? She, like all politians will say "yes, of course", and indeed has.......B...
Jump to postWhy is the Queen still in power? Why does she not abdicate? At the age of 21 she pledged to her Realms that she would serve them for all of her life, be it long or short. Turns out that it has been long. We still have a Monarchy because we want to keep it. There's very little enthusiasm for changing...
Jump to postI understand that the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution is based on our Bill of Rights. We have obviously binned that, as we don't need to protect ourselves against Catholics any more, and haven't for a very long time. Which is just as well, as I am Catholic! Anyway, my point is that firstly, con...
Jump to postThe Palace Guard (not always from the Brigade of Guards), is ceremonial. But like all military units there is a self defence capability not on view. Primacy for security at Royal Residents in London is the with the Metropolitan Police. Outside of London, it remains with the Met for Windsor and Balmo...
Jump to post"Apparently Clarkson is in trouble again. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-praises-lovely-country-Chile.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...raises-lovely-country-Chile.html"</a> I think some members of the press just want to hound him for anything. <acronym t...
Jump to postPyrex "A prosecutor indicting someone just for political reasons, without any shred of (or merely flimsy) evidence, is an abuse of power of Spitzeresque proportions" Absolutely agree! But you also have to see that it is an elegant attempt to stop the negative reaction to a correct decision. That sai...
Jump to postDisgusting behavior from some Argentinians. Do the Germans get all bent out of shape because they lost the second world war? No. Nor do they attack Brits because we sank the Bismark. It happened, in this day and age, their action, whatever flimsy justification was wrong, Military action that they st...
Jump to postDLX I want to hear it, you're simply not saying it. I accept you don't agree with the verdict/finding, but that doesn't necessarily make it wrong. I've read through the transcripts of the Ferguson Grand Jury, and to be fair, using UK law, and again, accepting that is different, there's only the very...
Jump to postDLX It's a tad worrying. You see I have never at any point said that these 2 Grand Jury's are right, or wrong. I am simply trying to get to the bottom of why you have stated they were wrong, and establish if there's a possibility they were in fact right. If you can't deduct that from what I have sai...
Jump to postDLX Why would someone want to waive their right? I can think of many reasons, not least innocence and wanting to provide an explanation. How do you arrive at the conclusion that it 'must be' self incrimination? In any event, clearly neither of the officers concerned thought so, and clearly they were...
Jump to post"My understanding is that for a grand jury it is not a right or choice of the defendant to testify as in a trial. The grand jury proceedings essentially belong to the crown, the defendant may request but he then has to convince first the judge and the prosecutor." While they might have once belonged...
Jump to postBongodog The IPCC investigated the shooting of Duggen, didn't stop rioting here did it. Granted they screwed up the initial public statements, but even if they hadn't, we would have seen the same thing. The problem isn't really who investigates it, it's an assumption that that investigation will be ...
Jump to postZckls In terms of the process it has been. Saying the process is wrong is the next step, but to get to that you have to presuppose that the process was flawed and flawed because of a persons actions or lack thereof. So the first question must be, looking at it independently is was that process reall...
Jump to postDLX But the defendents can waive those rights. Also, having done some research there's nothing stopping a defendent giving evidence before a Grand Jury. So I put it this way. It's your opinion, nothing more, that the Prosecutor was somehow corrupt. As with all opinion, it's not a fact. You can call ...
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