{"id":1154,"date":"2006-03-08T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/08\/114181414244421287\/"},"modified":"2007-01-20T21:53:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T21:53:56","slug":"dark-skinned-bearded-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/dark-skinned-bearded-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark-skinned bearded types"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>It was always fairly obvious that dark-skinned bearded types (especially those with hooks for hands) wouldn&#8217;t find much sympathy when getting extradited to the US on terror charges. But since <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/4576281.stm\">those bankers<\/a> got done by the not even slightly reciprocal Extradition Treaty a few weeks back <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/main.jhtml?xml=\/money\/2006\/03\/08\/cnterbil08.xml&amp;menuId=242&amp;sSheet=\/money\/2006\/03\/08\/ixcitytop.html\">the pressure from middle England is mounting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Gareth Hardwick, a director of Staffordshire-based Grafton International, said: &#8216;I am outraged at the predicament UK executives find themselves in as a result of the extradition agreement the UK has with the US but the US does not have with the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;It makes me fearful of any legislation connected with terrorism. The Government needs to act swiftly to protect those UK citizens already in the system.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t threaten the white middle classes with your terror laws, Tony &#8211; they don&#8217;t like it up &#8217;em, and are rather more inclined to vote than the usual targets&#8230;<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was always fairly obvious that dark-skinned bearded types (especially those with hooks for hands) wouldn&#8217;t find much sympathy when getting extradited to the US on terror charges. But since those bankers got done by the not even slightly reciprocal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/dark-skinned-bearded-types\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-civil-liberties","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}