Google| Subject | Re: Republicanism still an offence in England? (wasRe: Queen mother (of england) has died) |
| From | Halmyre |
| Date | 2002-04-04 16:37 (2002-04-04 06:37) |
| Message-ID | <250f136c.0204040637.58ad3b77@posting.google.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien,alt.uk.law,uk.current-events.general,uk.legal,uk.politics.constitution |
| Follows | David Flood |
"David Flood" <NOSPAMmaoltuile@utvinternet.ie>wrote in message news:<a8fpae$s84mu$1@ID-121201.news.dfncis.de>... <snip>
David FloodThere is a novel by John Trenhaile, the title of which escapes me, which has that as part of the scenario - the government frames somebody for being part of an assasination plot against the Queen and sentences him to death. I think the idea is to re-introduce the death penalty by the back door. The final part of the book, where the condemned man's allies are racing to save him from the noose even as he is being led to the gallows, is extremely gripping.
And yet it's still on the statute books.
If (God forbid) a far-right government ever came to power - the present Tories supported by the BNP, for example - then it's not too much of a stretch to imagine such laws possibly being implemented with earnestness in NI, for example, if the political will existed.
cheers, David
Halmyre
2002-03-30-
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