Chris_Sleeps Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Len McCluskey can call openly for people to rebel against the elected government; it would be a crime. Under which Act? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Under which Act? That I couldn't tell you. Sedition has been illegal since at least 1066, under various legal guises - I'd be willing to stake my house that it still is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 That I couldn't tell you. Sedition has been illegal since at least 1066, under various legal guises - I'd be willing to stake my house that it still is. It'd get too mixed up with Human Rights. McCluskey has Freedom of Expression and his union has Freedom of Assembly. "Open Rebellion" sounds like a really old political concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Lock him up,waste tax-payers money,make him a martyr and provoke a reaction-this is what I call sensible politics and pragmaticism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 It'd get too mixed up with Human Rights. McCluskey has Freedom of Expression and his union has Freedom of Assembly. Human rights doesn't include the right to commit sedition, any more than it includes the right to incite murder. The legal question would turn on what, exactly, he has said, and since I don't know what he said nor in exactly what context, I'm not going to stick my neck out and say that, based on his actual comments, he should be prosecuted. (In practical terms, unless he's been encouraging people to take up shotguns and march on Westminster to massacre the government, any prosecution is highly unlikely at best.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Human rights doesn't include the right to commit sedition Until you find the act where Sedition is a crime then this argument has no basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Sedition is no longer an offence. Unless you are an alien... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Until you find the act where Sedition is a crime then this argument has no basis. Not true. The argument has a basis if it is a crime, regardless of whether or not I happen to know which particular piece of legislation has made it so. I couldn't tell you which act made murder a crime, but I'll stake you a million pounds to a penny that it is one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sibon Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 If we are to stoop to locking up those who express ideas that we find unpalatable, perhaps we are not a fit country to host the Olympics in the first place. I happen to think that McCluskey has made a brainless statement and I can't see his membership even contemplating going along with it. It would be even more brainless to try to supress his views by imprisoning him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 Until you find the act where Sedition is a crime then this argument has no basis. What are you basing your legal mastery upon? Wikipedia? Google? More careful reading of the OP will reveal that it claims no technical basis in law, just for an opinion - should Len McCluskey be locked up for sedition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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