Fwd: not the first such UK anti-terror law .. Re: [IP] (UK) Judges' verdicton terror laws provoke s constitutional crisis

Response to discussion of UK verdict denouncing a purportedly
anti-terror law.

> From: "David Farber"
> Date: December 17, 2004 10:45:14 AM EST
> To: ip@v2.listbox.com
> Subject: not the first such UK anti-terror law .. Re: [IP] (UK)
> Judges' verdicton terror laws provoke s constitutional crisis
> Reply-To: dave@farber.net
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> Subject: not the first such UK anti-terror law .. Re: [IP] (UK)
> Judges' verdicton terror laws provoke s constitutional crisis
> Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
> Date: 17th December 2004 9:06:33 pm
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> David Farber [17/12/04 05:10 -1000]:
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>> Author: Brian Randell
>>> As Lord Hoffman noted, the case called into
>>> question "the very existence of an ancient
>>> liberty of which this country has until now been
>>> very proud: freedom from arbitrary arrest and
>>> detention". His conclusion could not have been
>
> Not the first anti terror law though. Rather ancient history, but
> there's
> the Rowlatt Act, passed in British India in 1919 on the
> recommendations of
> a commission headed by Sir Sidney Rowlatt.
>
> The most accurate description of this act is, I guess, in this short
> Hindi
> phrase .. "Na Vakeel, Na Daleel, Na Appeal" - No Lawyer, No Trial, No
> Appeal
>
> Needless to say, it was rather unpopular back then, even more so when
> the
> arrest of two Indian politicians under this act made a whole lot of
> people
> in the city of Amritsar defy a curfew order and organize a political
> meeting in a city park to protest the arrests. A whole lot of families
> from the surrounding towns and villages, who were in the city to
> attend a
> religious festival, also happened to be in the park.
>
> The date was April 13, 1919, the park was called Jallianwala Bagh.
>
> More on that park, and its history - are rather well documented in this
> excellent website on Churchill -
> http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/churchill/amritsar.htm
>
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