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Mukkinese
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 Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 8:04 pm Post subject: The Freedom bill |
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Now that the Lib-Dems have some power, should we renew our efforts to get the Dangerous pictures act repealed or at least amended?
http://freedom.libdems.org.uk/the-freedom-bill/
I'm sure the more of us who ask the more likely it is that they will consider it. If they could include in with a whole raft of other stuff it may well get by "under the radar", as just another bad law to be scrapped. |
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Graham
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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I'm certainly planning on writing to my (Lib Dem) MP urging him to support the Freedom Bill (aka the Great Repeal Bill) and including a few things like the DPA in with it  |
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gremmlin
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Great_Repeal_Bill#Parliamentary_Acts
Tory MP Douglas Carswell and Tory MEP Daniel Hannan drew up a "great repeal bill" in 2009 with the help of members of the public. It parallels a number of things we know will be in the "Freedom bill" to be announced in the next Queen's speech.
Carsell/Hannan say they hope the proposals will make it into either a government bill or private members bills.
Carswell/Hannan includes the DPA in 2 sections.
Ken Clarke is in Straw's former job as Justice secretary-might well be unsympathetic to the DPA (if aware of it)-that's if I read him correctly
If the new government are looking for ambiguous, shoddy, stupid, mess of a needless law to repeal, the DPA is made to order. It is also a thought crime. So really it hits all the marks as the sort of thing the new crew claim to want to get rid. An amendment to exclude patently unreal material may be the best approach, though working for the total abolition of this clause. The commons has lost the DPA critics Harry Cohen and Evan Harris. But Salter is no more too and I can't think of a Tory or Lib Dem MP who was in the vanguard of supporting the legislation and despite the spin from the last government, it hardly got all party support.
This is the time to start the campaign to remove this bigoted, disproportionate and vicious legislation. |
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emark
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 10:50 am Post subject: |
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Note that that link is a Wiki, which can be edited by anyone, and isn't any guarantee of being anything like the actual Bill.
More news on the bill though - Nick Clegg has given a speech ( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/clegg-makes-his-bid-for-a-place-in-history-1976426.html , http://www.libdems.org.uk/latest_news_detail.aspx?title=New_Politics%3a_Nick_Clegg%27s_speech_on_constitutional_reform&pPK=2c639a58-0da9-40c2-9ea4-3ac96cc7daa3 ).
He says:
| Quote: | “And as we tear through the statute book, we’ll do something no government ever has:
“We will ask you which laws you think should go.
“Because thousands of criminal offences were created under the previous government...
“Taking people’s freedom away didn’t make our streets safe.
“Obsessive lawmaking simply makes criminals out of ordinary people.
“So, we’ll get rid of the unnecessary laws, and once they’re gone, they won’t come back.
“We will introduce a mechanism to block pointless new criminal offences.” |
It's hopeful that he wants to repeal many such laws, and not simply a handful to show that they've done something. It's unclear what mechanism there will be for people to tell them, but I think it's worth a chance to watch.
A possible added bonus is that if Section 63 is simply one of many, it's perhaps less likely to get individual publicity from scaremongering tabloids. If the law as any chance of being repealed, this seems a better chance than any other we might have. |
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