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The UK Riots and the Criminality of Jack Straw

Submitted on August 16, 2011

By Robin Beste - August 16, 2011

Jack Straw, former foreign secretary in Tony Blair's government, was quick to his feet, following David Cameron's speech on the UK riots..."We need more prisons," Straw told Cameron and the House of Commons...He may get his wish, looking at some of the sentences that have already been handed down in the hundreds of cases rushed through emergency courts -- no doubt at the government's bidding, to show that instant retribution will take precedence over justice.

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