XPost: alt.conspiracy, alt.history.british, alt.politics.british   
   XPost: uk.media, uk.media.newspapers, uk.politics.misc   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <1152921188.2607.0@proxy02.news.clara.net>, Harry The Horse   
    writes   
      
   >William Flax wrote:   
   >> It appears that Britain has gotten even further afield from her   
   >> traditional ways and culture than have her American cousins.   
   >>   
   >> Perhaps it is time that the Barons invoked the provisions of Magna   
   >> Carta, which got left out of most of the later published versions,   
   >> after the original 1215 signing.  (Wonder if the Tin Pot Clintonesque   
   >> tyrant at No. Ten Downing will try to get me extradited from the   
   >> States for that comment?)   
   >>   
   >No.  You in the US have the protection of the 4th Amendment.  We do not.   
      
   Also the UK authorities would actually have to present some evidence to   
   a US court, unlike when it's the other way round, when US authorities do   
   not have to present any evidence to an English court to get someone   
   extradited.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)