Celebrate the death of ID cards
Posted on October 10, 2010With the repeal of the wasteful, invasive Identity Cards Act 2006 fast approaching, those excellent campaigners at No2ID are holding a celebration of the step towards restoring English liberty.
It’s a celebratory wake, really – drinking to the death of one of the most intrusive assaults on freedom and privacy in British history. The details are here – do head along and celebrate the death of ID cards. Yes to the free individual, no to the power of the state!
Of course, this is far from being a final victory. Already the Coalition have approved plans to snoop on every citizen online. That means NO2ID and other freedom campaigners have a long battle still to fight – but all the more reason to rally the troops and celebrate a success.
Tags: Database State, ID cards, Libertarianism, NO2ID, Party, Privacy, Snoopers
Other illiberal idea the Govnernemtn has tried to put through include,Magistrates bieng allowed to put people away without juries for two years rather than the 6months at the moment
while criticising Labour for changing the right to trial from Magna Carta, A pollicy that has only been used once in the last 8 years, for a serious armed robbery trial that had three miss trials all of which had ogne on for several months each and the Judge having then in wanting to continue with a prosecution putting it up for a fourth
scrapping the Section 44 temporary measures anti terrorism act, where a p.c can search the outer garments of someone of the same sex ,who they SUSPECT, of doing something out of the ordinary in relation to possible terrorism, as opposed to the PACE act 1984 where the uniformed P.C could search someone on suspision of having stolen artices, articles used in Roberry,Burglary,attempted Theft, Prohibited articles(guns/Drugs),or knives, Set up in 2000 was the 24hour Section 60 search to be used in a certain place where teh Police chief had to get Governemt permission (this was used if a metal detector arch was set up at a train station)IE if the person through the arch had taken metal objects out of their pockets the alarm went off they could assume there was soemothing metal their that shouldn’t be and search, (for possible knives etc) ammended to anti social behaviour for fireworks/Criminal damage
the governemt now has said section 60 could be more than 24 hours and not allocated to a certain place, This basically brings back the Sus laws, more larger than 44, the sus laws themselves repalced with the PAce act which was introduced after the SCarman report of 1982
Stop and accounts introduced after the Lawrence report have been scrapped, These go hand in hand with Stop and search but are voluntary and the public don’t have to either account for their actions /give their names or stay with the P.C but the P.C has to give their name/Number and tell the mmeber of the public why they are asking the member of the public theirs- the reasons beign they suspect them of the same pace reasons for searching them but they do’t believe they have anything on them, IE when walter Wlofgang was talking to police after being evicted by security at teh LAbour confernece he was give a piece of paper with the coppers name on it saying that it could be considered anti social behaviour if he tried to get back in, Walter of ocurse could have just walked off ,as their is no power to detain some one for a talking too.#
Of course in the past a P.C could ask a member of the public their name and what they were doing and the P.C didn’t have to tell the memeber of the Public who they were and why they were asking, the Coalition governemt in getting rid of this make themselves appear more libertarian ,buthave taken form the public the right ot get the P.Cs name wrote down for them
22.10.2010 15:39
And yet we read today that Labour are ahead in the polls once again. It appears that sufficient voters are uninterested or unaware of civil liberty. They just want to hang on to their benefits or their public sector non-jobs. To hell with freedom.
24.10.2010 15:59