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Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.

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The law is immoral.
Mark Thomas
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Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.
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I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.
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I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.
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People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.
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People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.
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People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
Ida B. Wells
The seasons come up undisturbed by crime and war.
George A. Smith
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.
Robert Nozick
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
Josephus Daniels
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
Edward Coke
Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
Rebecca H. Davis
Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Justinian I
I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.
Tracey Gold
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means.
Ian Williams
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel J. Boorstin
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Tacitus
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.
Mark Millar
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
Mikhail Bakunin
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
Quincy Jones
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
George Borrow
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
Alexander Alekhine
We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.
Bianca Jagger
The worst crime is faking it.
Kurt Cobain
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Thomas Huxley
It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.
Jeffery Deaver
Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.
Cliff Stearns
The head never rules the heart but just becomes its partner in crime.
Michael McLaughlin
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
Jack Valenti
We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.
Michael Bloomberg
I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.
Patty Hearst
First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
Jack Kevorkian
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Lord Melbourne
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Charles Sturt