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[johnny9fingers]

I know I go on about this sort of stuff, but some of my family were (and are) Lawyers and Judges, and the legal process (or the lack thereof) is something that interests me.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2104014,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10

Alas, for some of my chums on the right, it's Clive Stafford Smith, and his new book on Guantánamo. I might advise reading the book, but that could be a step too far for most folk.

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I'd read it... but then I've got a morbid curiosity...

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

... I'm a cynic and I believe conspiracies control the world. I'll look into getting a copy, but I'm sure it won't surprise me - much - except maybe in terms of its wit, humour and style.

On another subject, if you're thinking of getting the Leslie going, you might be interested in in this :

http://www.captain-foldback.com/Leslie_sub/pinouts.htm

I've got an 11-pin output on my organ and a 9-pin input on the Leslie. It seems that the organ puts out +ve to ground to switch the motors on and off, and the Leslie accepts -ve. Looks like I'll be building a relay box, but that might encourage me to make a footswitch, which I'd prefer anyway.

Still no reply about the book ?

I'd like to read that too.

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Re: I'd read it... but then I've got a morbid curiosity...

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Thanks, have printed out the Leslie stuff, and will fabricate summat to fit sometime next week.
Will let you have a copy of the Novel next week.
Love & respect.

[e-compass-rosa.livejournal.com]

I'd say it's "the lack thereof" if you're referring to the legal process and Guantanamo.

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

The book review linked to in The Grauniad looks rather interesting. It seems Gitmo and renditions is the way we're going. I'm keeping my eye on Sarkozy with regards to all this. He had the CRS stalking the sans papiers (illegal immigrants) as they were dropping their kids off at school, carting them off and leaving the kids without supervision. There was a riot in Paris when a squat caught fire because he'd cut off the electricity, despite there being families there (they were cooking with candles). Chiraq has already put steel prison containers at the airports for holding people before they're sent back to regimes which are certain to persecute them. There's plenty of instances of the UK sending political refugees back to dangerous situtations they were fleeing. There was that case of moroccan police firing on africans trying to get into a spanish enclave on the coast of Morocco. They talk about 'Fortress Europe'. 'Sateless people' on the move. Gitmo is outside international law - the book being reviewed describes it as a 'bubble', convenient for holding people indefinitely, and instilling fear in all of us. Good old Bushie.