An example [...] (off-topic)

[Owen Blacker]

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The McLibel Two cannot (by definition) be "serious criminals".  Libel
is a tort, not a crime (IIRC)   :o)


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Owen Blacker
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From: Ian G Batten [mailto:I.G.Batten@ftel.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 3:52 PM
To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
Subject: Re: An example of the trust to be placed in law enforcement


> Perhaps the Home Office think the McLibel Two are "serious" 
> criminals, terrorists or child abusers? After all they did
distribute a 

No, just people who criticise big business or other governments. 
Hence
the government and the Met's attitude to protestors against the
Chinese
regime --- they're a government, and big business is courting them. 
In
a context like that, freedom of speech goes right out of the window.

ian

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