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politically incorrect jokes, with a maximum punishment of up to seven 
years' prison. The House of Lords tried to insert a free-speech amendment, 
but Justice Secretary Jack Straw knocked it out. It was Straw who previously 
called for a redefinition of Englishness and suggested the "global baggage 
of empire" was linked to soccer violence by "racist and xenophobic white 
males". He claimed the English "propensity for violence" was used to 
subjugate Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and that the English as a race 
were "potentially very aggressive".

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Full article at "The Australian"
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25361297-7583,00.html


Cheers, Steve..

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