Jailed for making notes about bombs?
Sep. 26th, 2005 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergothMan jailed for 15 years on terror charges
On the balance of probabilities, I think the guy's a wrongun. But beyond reasonable doubt?
Jailed for making notes about bombs argues that he was just a nutter with an Al-Qaeda fixation, unlikely to actually do anything. Maybe.
On the balance of probabilities, I think the guy's a wrongun. But beyond reasonable doubt?
Jailed for making notes about bombs argues that he was just a nutter with an Al-Qaeda fixation, unlikely to actually do anything. Maybe.
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Date: 2005-09-26 02:28 pm (UTC)I agree totally! Just like fantasists are not ...
Date: 2005-09-26 02:42 pm (UTC).. murderers because an author wrote a book with a murder in it (even if he describes the murderer's mind from the inside)
Can someone really get jailed 15 years! for all that's in his or her mind?!
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Date: 2005-09-26 02:51 pm (UTC)What's odd is that they've treated two very similar things - the code words and the mortar instructions - as two separate crimes. I think making the sentences consecutive rather than concurrent is very dubious.