[R-G] How Britain became party to a crime that may have killeda million people

[Nicholas Morcinek]

I have to say that my own experience working with the law shows quite
clearly that we have a lot more rights under common law than we do with a
written constitution.

Basically in a written constitution everything not specifically permitted is
illegal whereas under common law everything is legal until legislated
otherwise.

I know which I prefer.... not that any of them are such a great deal!

Nicholas

PS Happy Constantine New Year

One assumes that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, having approved of
executions for "guilty" Canadians, as long as they're done overseas, will
have no problem with torture, which is not as bad as a lethal injection. 

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Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:25 PM
To: nick at faunusherbs.com
Subject: Re: [R-G] How Britain became party to a crime that may have killeda
million people

So now, Bush-Cheney absolute imperialism simply mocks, in 3-D rather
than quietly, in house, the absolutism of the present heirs to mad
King George of the time of founding this coountry?  The more the
change the more the same.  Pound for pound, the U.S. version is about
one thousand times worse.  The U.S. food and chemical processing
systems poison, killing millions of its own, for example...as well as
all the oceans.

On 1/2/08, Sid Shniad <shniad at sfu.ca> wrote:
> The Guardian                         January 1, 2008
>
> Comment
>
> How Britain became party to a crime that may have killed a million people
>
> Not having a written constitution allowed Blair and his advisers to go to
> war without reference to parliament or the public
>
> George Monbiot
>
> If you doubt Britain needs a written constitution, listen to the strangely
> unbalanced discussion broadcast by the BBC last Friday. The Today
programme
> asked Lord Guthrie, formerly chief of the defence staff, and Sir Kevin
> Tebbit, until recently the senior civil servant at the Ministry of
Defence,