Wednesday, June 23, 2004 :
This article is spot on. The British Government needs to stand up for its citizens more. It’s quite right that Garry Mann shouldn’t be imprisoned after a Mickey Mouse Portuguese trial. And the Government should be doing more to protest the incarceration of its citizens in Guantanamo Bay without any trial at all. Plus, until the US shows that it is going to observe due process and respect the right to a fair trial, the Government should also tell the US to get stuffed if they want to extradite a British citizen on terrorist charges, even if the citizen in question might appear to be a complete wanker.
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Clearly you are just trying to create more work for lawyers. Which is odd, because you spend most of your time complaining that - as a lawyer - you have too much work to do. Joe
Not really advocating lawyer intervention... more that the government, at a diplomatic level, should be more ready to stand up for British citizens and protest when their basic legal/human rights are abused by other countries. Rather than, as this government seems more inclined to do, saying "good on ya, he's probably dodgy, stick it to him"! I think the Lord Palmerston style gunboat diplomacy is probably out of the question for us these days... ahhh, the once-great nation that we are!
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