Law

Law
Type	fundamental
Interest of	• Philip Alston • Jonathan Zittrain

Law is a system of rules that are enforced through social institutions to govern behaviour.

Radical re-think

In May 2015, David Cameron announced a plan to give "the police powers to apply to the high court for an order to limit the “harmful activities” of an extremist individual. The definition of harmful is to include a risk of public disorder, a risk of harassment, alarm or distress or creating a “threat to the functioning of democracy”. He did this in the name of free speech, stating further "For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone... Freedom of speech. Freedom of worship. Democracy. The rule of law." This prompted exasperation in some quarters, and the observation that "Leviathan jumps the shark".

 

Examples

Page name	Description
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine/Legacy	A list of long term political effects that have a significant chance of becoming permanent in the countries of participants or sponsors.
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine/War Crimes	A list of War crimes and propaganda in this event.
Berufsverbot	Ban from public service jobs in Germany based on political convicitons - in 2021 also for "conspiracy ideologies".
COVID-19/Vaccine/Authorisation	Not all vaccines were authorized in all countries.
COVID-19/Zero Covid	Policy during Covid-19 to have no cases of a flu-like disease, which (as history has shown) proved impossible. Heavily enforced by China when many other countries already abandoned the policy within a year or 2. Its scientific need has never been proven.
Cheney Loophole	A 'get out of jail free card' for the Fracking industry, to permit them to poison the US drinking water.
Civil Contingencies Act 2004
Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act	US 1986 sanctions against apartheid South Africa
Court order
Digital Economy Act 2017
Document:H.RES.758	This bill puts America on a footing for war against Russia. It has received close to zero coverage in the US and other establishment media.
E-FOIA	A widely flouted US law mandating openness in handling FOIA requests and publishing information online.
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013	UK law that expands copyright to pictures of "designer objects".
Fair Sentencing Act
Federal Reserve Act	The 1913 law which secured operational control of the US dollar for the US Deep state up to the present day.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Freedom of Information Act
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Gender Recognition Reform Bill	landmark transgender legislation in Scotland
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
George W. Bush/Torture Indictment	The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Canadian Centre for International Justice have been taking legal action against George W Bush for his role in authorizing and overseeing his administration's well-documented torture program.
Guantanamo Bay detention camp/Prisoners' appeals in Washington courts	Appeals in Washington courts of Guantanamo prisoners
Gun control
Habeas corpus	Habeas corpus is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.
International law
Invention Secrecy Act
Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act	US law to allow civil claims in the US justice system against a foreign state for injuries, death, or damages from an act of international "terrorism"
Minimum wage
NDAA 2017	US military budget 2017
National Emergencies Act	Basis for later coup d'état legislation and CoG activation
National Labor Relations Act
National Security Act
Nuremberg Code	The Nuremberg Code is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation set as a result of the subsequent Nuremberg trials at the end of WWII.
Official Secrets Act 1911
Official Secrets Act 1989	An expansion of the Official Secrets Act 1911.
Online Safety Bill	Proposed piece of landmark legislation which will enable internet censorship in Great Britain
PCSC Bill	UK law
Pan Am Flight 103/The Trial	Judges at the Lockerbie Trial, sitting without a jury, convicted Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and sentenced him to life imprisonment
Patriot Act	A legislative coup d'état
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
Repeal of the 2002 AUMF	The repeal of Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 by the US/House.
Rockefeller drug laws
Section 230	Federal regulations mainly affecting Big Tech.
Section 86a	German law which criminalised holocaust denial, and other organisations and symbols.
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs	An important step in the globalisation of the illegal drug trade.
Terrorism Act 2000
Terrorism Act 2006	Even more power to the government
UK Public Order Act
UK/2006 Equality Act
UK/2012 Health and Social Care Act	The most extensive reorganisation of the structure of the National Health Service in England to date.
... further results

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Attorney General for England and Wales	“It’s not unusual for the attorney general to intervene in cases in order to represent the public interest. He has sought to intervene in this case because it raises important issues about the scope of the criminal law.”		2017
Robert Cooper	“The postmodern world has to start to get used to double standards. Among ourselves, we operate on the basis of laws and open cooperative security. But, when dealing with old-fashioned states outside the postmodern continent of Europe, we need to revert to the rougher methods of an earlier era--force, pre-emptive attack, deception, whatever is necessary. Among ourselves, we keep the law but when we are operating in the jungle, we must also use the laws of the jungle.”	Robert Cooper	April 2002
Brian Crozier	“The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.”	Brian Crozier
Kleptocracy	“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”	Frédéric Bastiat
Karl Lauterbach	“We are now entering a phase where the state of emergency will be the normality. We will always be in a state of emergency from now on.”	Karl Lauterbach	2022
Michael Parenti	“When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.”	Michael Parenti
Bertrand Russell	“Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.”	Bertrand Russell	1952
Secret trial	“No free man shall be taken, or imprisoned, or dispossessed, of his liberties or be outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed excepting by the legal judgment of his peers, or by the laws of the land.”		1215 JL
Malcolm Turnbull	“The laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”	Malcolm Turnbull	14 July 2017

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:A new turf war with Strasbourg pushes Warsaw further down the road towards Polexit from the EU	Article	4 August 2021	Paul Nuttall	Will the schism between Poland and the European Union over legal differences eventually lead to "Polexit"?
File:Terrorism & Relative Justice.pdf	paper	2007	Mark Findlay

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