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Originally Posted by HamsterWheel
I suspect that what Alex will tell us about the City of London police is something like this :
They've confirmed they've got it, but have far too many cases of international fraud involving substantial amounts of money being stolen etc to devote any meaningful resources to a case where no-one appears to have lost any money or suffered any real harm.
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How dare you try to put a monetary value on civil rights like privacy.
Article 2: Right to Life
What price would you put on my life? Does that mean we shouldn't investigate murders if people of 'insignificant value' are killed?
Article 3: Inhuman treatment
Do you suppose we should ignore inhuman treatment because its not cost effective to prosecute people who commit inhuman acts?
Article 4: Slavery
Self evidently, slaves lives are worthless people. Lets ignore slavery too.
Article 5: Right to Liberty
Perhaps we don't deserve liberty, we can't afford it. Perhaps you should have to buy your liberty. Call it 'liberty tax', pay to stay out of jail. That makes liberty economically viable.
Article 6: Right to a fair trial
A fair trial would be so nice, but its simply unaffordable in Hamsterwheels utopia.
Article 7: Retrospective crimes
Suppose we could criminalise the people who we don't like, then arrest them for past 'offences', and put them in prison. Might save money on public services if they were all in a prison camp?
Article 8: Right to privacy
Either I buy my privacy back from Kent Ertugrul, or I get Phormed. So I wrote my own browser plug in, and switched ISP instead.
Article 9: Freedom of conscience
etc etc
You can't put an economic value on your human rights, and people who take them off you without consent are taking something truly priceless.
BT Directors must be prosecuted.
And Phorm must be stoppped.
Pete.