On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:32:26 -0000, "Glenallan"
<robert.black@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

>
>"Madra Dubh" <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:iVUNb.22581$VS4.683747@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>>
>> "Murchadh" <murchadh@shaw.ca> wrote in message
>news:4007739b.5806629@news...
>> > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:58:38 GMT, "Madra Dubh"
>> > <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > >"Adam Whyte-Settlar" <grawillers@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> > >news:aBCNb.17509$ws.2081108@news02.tsnz.net...
>> > >>
>> > >> "Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
>> > >> news:100d6t93o01cv9e@corp.supernews.com...
>> > >> > In news:6DoNb.17257$ws.2056059@news02.tsnz.net,
>> > >> > Adam Whyte-Settlar <grawillers@hotmail.com> radiated into the
>> > >> > WorldWideWait:
>> > >> > > "Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
>> > >> > > news:100apt0hirhntd2@corp.supernews.com...
>> > >> > >> In news:bu3j2n$d55va$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de,
>> > >> > >> Ryan Ginstrom <ginstrom@hotmail.com> radiated into the
>> > >> > >> WorldWideWait:
>> > >> > >>> "Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
>> > >> > >>> news:100ail8tmslmbaa@corp.supernews.com...
>> > >> > >>>> In news:bu30fu$d1mu9$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de,
>> > >> > >>>> Ryan Ginstrom <ginstrom@hotmail.com> radiated into the
>> > >> > >>>> WorldWideWait:
>> > >> > >>
>> > >> > >>>>> Like my granddaddy always used to say, you throw a rock into
>a
>> > >> > >>>>> pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one that got hit.
>> > >> > >>>>> If he doesn't like the US, he should just go on the hell
>home.
>> > >> > >>>>
>> > >> > >>>> Adam is an expatriate Brit living in New Zealand.
>> > >> > >>>
>> > >> > >>> Now I know you're trying to pull a fast one on me. They don't
>> have
>> > >> > >>> the Internet in New Zealand!
>> > >> > >>
>> > >> > >> Well, no, but he hollers real loud...
>> > >> > >
>> > >> > > Only sometimes... I think I must be missing synarse and Dave.
>> > >> > > Is Dave still posting by the way? Havn't seen any mention of him
>> > >> > > lately. He (Ryan) is not far wrong though - we just bought
>another
>> > >> > > house and the property manager at the bank doesn't have e-mail!
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Hopefully, the Brit Law finally caught up with him in his
>> > >> > terrorist-support activities and locked him away for a looonng
>time.
>> > >> >
>> > >> I don't think he actually engaged in 'activities' - just speaking
>out -
>> > >and
>> > >> as of this writing that is still not punishable by a long jail term
>in
>> the
>> > >> UK. Is it?
>> > >> A W-S
>> > >
>> > >Depends.
>> > >Be mindful of the Official Secrets Act.
>> >
>> > To be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act you have to have
>> > signed an official declaration promising to be bound by it.
>> >
>> > To the best of my knowledge, Dave has never signed it, but I'm sure
>> > quite a few people here have, myself included. The last bloke to tell
>> > all (from MI5) went to jail to remind us that a promise is a promise.
>>
>> *****************************************************
>> > When I was in the Army, the workings of the Lewis machinegun (used
>> > extensively in WWI) was still classified as a military secret.
>>
>> Highlander, please be more careful what you write.
>> I was sore tempted here.
>>    ;=)
>
>
>To my knowledge you do not actually have to sign anything.
>It is one of those examples where you are assumed to have known
>you ought to have signed it, and if you didn't you ought to have asked
>or if you failed to ask you should have made the assumption it was
>a secret and covered by the official secrets act which you ought
>to have known you should have signed.
>
>G

Well, your knowledge is wrong. You have to sign it. Apart from
anything else, if you don't, where's the proof that you've ever even
heard of it? What you've outlined above sounds more like Soviet Russia
than Britain.




Murchadh.