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Listed below are comments made by silasthehobbit between Tuesday, 22nd April 2008 and Tuesday, 13th October 2009.

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Leggless... 10:02am on 13 Oct 2009 Any chance you could ask any politicians who do come in about what they think about Carter-Ruck gagging the Guardian's reporting of the Trafigura question in Parliament today? Or are you similarly gagged?
Living with autism - tell us your story 09:32am on 13 Oct 2009 While I'm sure that covering autism is indeed a noble and worthwhile activity, why aren't you covering the Guardian being gagged by Carter-Ruck from questions being asked in Parliament?
Victory follows arm-twisting and cajoling 09:09am on 12 Jun 2008 Jasper39 @ 24

Surely the police and intelligence services should be doing the translating and chasing the emails *before* someone is detained?

If they are involved in a plot, then their very detention will signify to any other members of the plot that they have been compromised and send them scuttling to ground.

The police and intelligence services already had powers to use covert surveillance on anyone they suspected of being involved in a plot, and this should have been used to gather the evidence required to garner a prosecution.

There is NO NEED to extend the current 28 day period to 42. Simply using the measures already in place - RIP Act, Civil Contingencies, etc - would have been sufficient. This is security theatre for the present, with the very real possibility of function creep moving it into removal of anyone who protests against the Government.

Coupled with the previous day's vote that allows the Government to decide whether a coroner's court is held in private or not, we are heading toward the dictatorship mentality of 1970's Argentina. The disappeared will die and no-one will know how.

We have been sold down the river. I am ashamed to be English.
Team tactics 10:36am on 13 May 2008 Given Gordon's run of disasters recently, and his seeming ability to plight anyone he touches or is seen with, I'm now going to put a bet on Manchester United winning the Champions League.
The stakes are high 2:19pm on 30 Apr 2008 Interested to know why you think the majority of the public are on the PM's side Nick. I'm not entirely sure they are.

While there are the people who believe the Daily Mail's constant fear mongering, I honestly hope that the majority of people in this country are capable of realising that the terrorist threat is largely overstated.

Given that Microsoft have just released COFEE, the police will not need a longer time to de-encrypt the majority of PCs that they take from suspects, so there's no real argument for the extension.

My main concern is that the detention without trial will see the same function creep as the RIP Act and end up being used for purposes other than that it was intended. Such as removing people from the streets who disagree with Government policy, for example.
Comments on changes 09:57am on 22 Apr 2008 Does the rebranding also include a dumbing down? I know it's nearly compulsory now, but I had foolishly hoped that the BBC's news service would try to remain above it.

Just read this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7359258.stm) story and was somewhat surprised no-one mentioned to the geologist that the magnetic north has moved by about 20 degrees of longitude since 1900.

I'm not even going to start on the claim that Britain somehow enforced GMT on the world.

There's "not being biased" and then there's "legitimising stupidity". By publishing that nonsense on the BBC site, you're giving the impression that the opinion is somehow true.

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