EU "no evidence needed" warrants can detain Brits indefinitely
[This is the enactment of the EU version of the Patriot Act. The British courts are powerless to stop this tyranny.]
Surge in Britons exported for trial
The number of people in Britain seized under the controversial "no-evidence-needed" European Arrest Warrant rose by more than 50 per cent last year, figures obtained by The Sunday Telegraph show.
By Andrew Gilligan
Published: 10:00PM BST 21 Aug 2010
In total 1,032 people – almost three a day – were detained and extradited by British police on the orders of European prosecutors in the 12 months to April, up from 683 in 2008-09. The Home Office expects a further 70 per cent rise, to 1,700 cases, next year.
The increase will fuel growing political concern about the "unfair" and "disproportionate" nature of the warrants, which British courts have little power to challenge.
It comes as the case of Christopher Tappin, a suburban golf club captain accused of arms smuggling, sparked separate controversy about "unbalanced" extradition arrangements with the US.
David Blunkett, the former home secretary who introduced the European warrants, admitted he had been "insufficiently sensitive" about how they could be "overused". David Davis, his former Tory shadow, last night called for a "review and reform" of the extradition system.
The number of European Arrest Warrant detentions in Britain has risen 43-fold since 2004, when there were only 24 across the year. Many of those detained are accused of relatively minor crimes such as possessing cannabis or leaving petrol stations without paying.
They can spend long periods in jail – here and abroad – for crimes which might not even have been prosecuted in Britain. They can also be seized for offences which are not crimes in Britain.
Foreign prosecutors do not have to present evidence to the British courts, just demand the person be "surrendered".
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7958202/...
And I assume it's all the easier
when you have extremely strict gun laws like the UK because no one will be able to defend themselves.
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Let's not forget the Terrorism Acts of 2000 and 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Act_2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Act_2006
The provisons of those Acts are so broad that practically everyone fits the "terrorist" criteria.
The use of EU arrest warrants is just a way of avoiding political fallout.
Buck-passing, hand-washing, that sort of thing.
"Homegrown" terrorists and patriots now become one-in-the-same,
under their criteria.
The EU has way too much power. They need to be disbanded and quickly so that the countries of Europe can retain their individuality, independence, and identity.
Indeed.
For me, the creepiest developments are the cases where the "Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act" of 2000 has been used by local authorities to micro-manage people's lives.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/nov/05/council-spying...
britain shall
reap what they have sown. i feel sorry for britain folk. They are so progressive it seems with so many stances, but scary in a sense that we seem to be only years behind them in the progression towards complete governmental dominance. I still remember when every brit in the US and otherwise that i knew was ECSTATIC over obamacare because they thought it was a universal healthcare bill. what a joke.
Great Britain needs to get
Great Britain needs to get out of the European Union, and then the United Nations. And we need to keep from joining the North American Union, AKA Security and Prosperity Partnership, as well as getting out of the UN. The alternative is slavery!
The countries have
ALL been dissolved we are living the NWO.
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Total tyranny is arriving,...
while the sheeple are still sleeping all too soundly.
Whoever shoots first looses.