20 November, 2005

Statistics

From Private Eye (via Distillated):

Number Crunching:

  • 24 hours: period terrorism suspects in Australia (al-Qaeda death toll: 88) can be detained before criminal charges must be levelled;

  • 5 days: period terrorism suspects in can be detained before criminal charges must be levelled Spain (death toll: 191);

  • 7 days: period terrorism suspects in can be detained before criminal charges must be levelled USA (death toll: 3,000);

  • 90 days: period government proposes terrorist suspects in UK (Al-Qaeda death toll: 52) should be allowed to be detained before criminal charges must be levelled
as Kitty Ussher’s people say “Freedom is relative”…

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