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To: Soothesayer; wtd
I’m pretty sure they have anti-blasphemy laws in place. That’s why they can’t “accept comments for legal reasons.”

Not at all. This is standard practice with reports of current criminal trials, whatever the alleged offence. It's simply that, under British law, to comment on the merits of a criminal prosecution while it's in progress constitutes contempt of court. The media can only report the facts of the proceedings, not publish commentary. (It's a different matter, of course, after the case in concluded). The law on comtempt of court is much stricter in Britain than in the US.

13 posted on 11/30/2010 10:22:49 AM PST by Winniesboy
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To: Winniesboy

I was half-joking. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.


14 posted on 11/30/2010 10:26:46 AM PST by Soothesayer (“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license...")
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