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    MP "bugged"

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7225556.stm

    Maybe all MP's should be bugged at all times to dissuade them from carrying out illegal acts e.g. accepting donations, expense fiddles, etc. etc.
    If you find this post offensive, please insert "Chan" before and "tho" after, then it should be OK.

    Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being - Elvis Costello

    #2
    "police may have flouted convention" - is that all?

    police happy to break law when dealing with joe bloggs - about time MPs got treatment. they get loadsofmoney and expect to be treated differently from the rest.

    Guy Fawkes was right.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Chantho View Post
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7225556.stm

      Maybe all MP's should be bugged at all times to dissuade them from carrying out illegal acts e.g. accepting donations, expense fiddles, etc. etc.
      They are. Apparently MI5 has a department that does nothing else but monitor MPs and senior civil servants. Although I think in the 60s there was some kind of agreement that MPs wouldn't be bugged in certain circs.

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        #4
        The real crime surely is the fact that a British Citizen is about to be extradited on this one-way ticket deal between the UK and US, despite facing no charges here?
        Oh, I’m sorry….I seem to be lost. I was looking for the sane side of town. I’d ask you for directions, but I have a feeling you’ve never been there and I’d be wasting my time.

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          #5
          [quote=BrilloPad;444612Guy Fawkes was right.[/quote]


          Expect to be
          1.Raided at any time in the near future and
          2.The contents of your computer hard drive to be thoroughly audited and
          3.Found to contain quantities of "unacceptable pornography" and
          4.Jailed for years and
          5.Your name put on the registered sex offenders list and
          6.Deported to the Arctic
          It's Deja-vu all over again!

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            #6
            Originally posted by KathyWoolfe View Post
            Expect to be
            1.Raided at any time in the near future and
            2.The contents of your computer hard drive to be thoroughly audited and
            3.Found to contain quantities of "unacceptable pornography" and
            4.Jailed for years and
            5.Your name put on the registered sex offenders list and
            6.Deported to the Arctic
            luckily I have friends with good press contacts or 1 and 2 would have happened.

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              #7
              MP "bugged"

              MP "bugged"

              So what's new?

              Oh, sorry, I thought you said .....

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                #8
                He wasn't bugged, he was out looking for badges.
                Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
                  luckily I have friends with good press contacts or 1 and 2 would have happened.
                  If you were in Russia those contracts would have only been good to write an obituary.

                  HTH

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by SizeZero View Post
                    The real crime surely is the fact that a British Citizen is about to be extradited on this one-way ticket deal between the UK and US, despite facing no charges here?
                    Like the NatWest bankers... who suddenly 'fessed up when extradited & confronted by a more robust judicial system?
                    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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