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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Seditious Libel

A Liberal Democrat MP is trying to get the seventeenth-century law against seditious libel repealed; seditious libel being the life-sentence crime of writing something that brings into hatred or contempt the Queen, her heirs, the government, or the constitution and justice system. A few purely random examples of such heinous activity might be an Act of Parliament which outlawed peaceful protest; a plagiarised and badly edited internet document on the weapons capacity of a foreign country; a memorandum to a diplomat asserting the wonders of torture; any single example from a horrendous quantity of speeches claiming that the NHS has never had it so good and the BBC is safe in our hands and it's the end of boom and bust and bippety-boppety-boo; and doubtless this is one crime that New New Labour will be only too happy to see removed from the statute books.

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