To treat the Magna Carta as if it were written on the back of a cereal
packet. The ideas outlined in the UK in November, to remove the right to
jury trials in some cases, to dispose of the right not to be tried for the
same alleged crime twice in certain "very serious" areas, to permit
previous convictions "when relevant" to be used in court, and even to allow
hearsay evidence, smack of a desperate attempt to compensate for a dire
arrest rate by driving up the number of guilty verdicts.TIME's today.
Also from Raymond Snoddy.China's censors build the great internet
firewall.(a deadtree article so far,will type up later...send a ratty
professor a scanning pen!)
"...few Chinese would have been able to read the BBC story that the Chinese
government had asked financial authorities to keep stock prices on an
upward trend "to provide a positive atmosphere" during the (Communist
Parties) Congress..."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-479496,00.html
