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Old 21st January 2007, 10:57 PM
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Maybe the British electorate will be so enraged that the US has the apparent freedom to look at the information stored in UK banks that they will finally insist that Bush's lapdog Blair rise up and bite his master (assuming Blair stays around long enough - our own police have been arresting top Labour party officials over a corruption allegation, peerages for sale!)
Any other country's government would be told to "F*** Off" by our banks and government, but not the US it seems
A while ago, the FBI ordered South Africa to arrest some old codger minding his own business on holiday. After being held in a South African jail for 6 MONTHS, the FBI said "oops, sorry - wrong guy, you can let him go now". Was he compensated - I doubt it!
While online gaming doesn't impress the UK majority, concern about who is allowed access to personal information is a MASSIVE ISSUE over here, triggered by the proposals for identity cards. If the subpoenas simply tell banks to give "everything" to the DoJ, most Brits will be enraged, whatever the purpose was said to be.
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