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We Have Ways of Making You a Criminal

Reason Staff | 9.17.2008 5:00 AM


Since it took power in 1997, Great Britain's Labor Party government has created more than 3,600 new criminal offenses. Britons can now be charged with everything from importing Polish potatoes to holding an unlicensed concert in a church or community hall.

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