Reply #44: follow the dots

[iverglas]

The conversation you're involved in started out like this:

"One little problem
Amendment V"

The proposal made by someone in the UK is no more interesting than a similar proposal made in the US would be, for precisely the same reasons.

The protections of this sort that exist in the US **came from** the UK. Everything has to come from somewhere, eh? Unreasonable search and seizure **were already** prohibited in the UK when your Bill of Rights was written.

And just as the protection has evolved in the US, so it has evolved in the UK. Amazingly, I know.

The entire point of this entire thread is non-existent. It has been responded to by many AS IF there are some magical formulas in the US that would prevent such a thing happening there that DO NOT EXIST in the UK. This is, of course, bullshit. And in this thread it devolved beyond ignorant bullshit into bigoted bullshit.

While the little foray off into the US fifth amendment might be fascinating, the entire discussion is premised on some bizarre notion that there is protection in the US that doesn't exist in the UK. You were responding to someone who had responded to an assertion that something could not happen in the US, in response to an initial post that was an obvious attempt to portray it as something that *could* happen in the UK. Forgive me for speaking to the subject matter of the thread ... and point out where I applied any comment you object to to you, if you like.

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