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A brief guide to the loss of liberty and rights since 1997
Protest and assembly
– Protests are banned within one kilometre of Parliament Square without police permission (penalty: 51 weeks in jail and/or a £2,500 fine).
– Groups may be dispersed under antisocial-behaviour laws.
– Groups may be dispersed within designated areas under the terror laws.
– The new offence under SOCPA of trespass within a designated site (no justification for designation is required).
Communications
– Under the Regulation of Investigative Powers Act, government agencies may intercept email, internet connections and standard mail without seeking a court’s permission (the latest figure is 500,000 secret interceptions a year).
– Since summer 2007, the government and some 700 agencies have had access to all landline and mobile-phone records. There was no primary legislation and no debate in parliament.
Databases
– Without primary legislation, police introduced a national network of all ANPR cameras. The travel data may be stored for two years.
– The National Identity Register will store details of every verification made by an ID-card holder and give access to government agencies without the knowledge or consent of the private citizen.
– ID-card enrolment requires every citizen to offer up 49 pieces of personal information to the national database, with heavy and repeated fines for non-compliance.
– All children's details are to be stored on a central database, with access granted to a wide range of public bodies.
– The Children’s Common Assessment Framework database stores all details of children with problems, indefinitely.
– The Home Office has announced that it wishes to take 19 pieces of information, including mobile-phone and credit-card numbers, from everyone travelling abroad.
Free Expression
– Public-order laws have been used to curtail free expression. A man wearing the slogan “Bollocks to Blair” on his T-shirt was told to remove it by police.
– The Race and Religious Hatred Act (2006) bans incitement of hatred on religious grounds.
– Justice Minister Jack Straw proposes new laws which would ban the incitement of hatred towards the disabled and on the grounds of a person’s sexual orientation
– Terror laws are used to ban freedom of expression in designated areas. Walter Wolfgang was removed from the Labour party conference for heckling Jack Straw. People have been searched simply for wearing slogans on their T-shirts or for carrying banners. A man was detained while collecting signatures against the ID card
– The Protection from Harassment Act (1997) bans the repetition of an act. People prosecuted for repeated protest by email.
– Terror laws ban the glorification of terrorism, which has resulted in the prosecution of a young woman for writing poetry.
The Courts
– ASBO legislation introduces hearsay evidence, which may result in a person being sent to jail.
– The Criminal Justice Act (2003) allows the prosecution to make an application to be heard without a jury where there is a danger of jury tampering. This will include fraud trials.
– The admissibility of evidence concerning a person’s bad character, previous convictions and acquittals.
– The Proceeds of Crime Act (2002) gives the state powers to confiscate assets in circumstances where it does not have enough evidence for prosecution.
–Special Immigration Appeals Court hearings are held in secret. Those terror suspects whose cases come before the court are not allowed to know the evidence against them or to be represented by a lawyer of their own choice.
– The Courts and Tribunals Enforcement Act abandons the tradition of an Englishman’s home being his castle, which since 1604 has made breaking into a home by bailiffs illegal.
Terror Laws
– Terror laws have been used to stop and search ordinary citizens. The current rate is 50,000 per annum.
– A maximum of 28 days without charge is allowed under terror legislation. The government has announced plans to increase this to 42 days.
– Control orders, effectively indefinite house arrest, were introduced after the Belmarsh decision.
Hi People,
Many a night at the bugz studio,Orin and i love to put the world to rights over a few merry berry roll ups. Over the last few years Orin has opened my eyes to alot of information that i never knew about, which has got me thinking in different way than i used to. You may think that this stuff is just conspiracies but if you look up any of the info above you will find that they are part of UK law.
Dont be blinded by fear of terror
light will overcome the darkness
one love blud
mr m force
– Protests are banned within one kilometre of Parliament Square without police permission (penalty: 51 weeks in jail and/or a £2,500 fine).
– Groups may be dispersed under antisocial-behaviour laws.
– Groups may be dispersed within designated areas under the terror laws.
– The new offence under SOCPA of trespass within a designated site (no justification for designation is required).
Communications
– Under the Regulation of Investigative Powers Act, government agencies may intercept email, internet connections and standard mail without seeking a court’s permission (the latest figure is 500,000 secret interceptions a year).
– Since summer 2007, the government and some 700 agencies have had access to all landline and mobile-phone records. There was no primary legislation and no debate in parliament.
Databases
– Without primary legislation, police introduced a national network of all ANPR cameras. The travel data may be stored for two years.
– The National Identity Register will store details of every verification made by an ID-card holder and give access to government agencies without the knowledge or consent of the private citizen.
– ID-card enrolment requires every citizen to offer up 49 pieces of personal information to the national database, with heavy and repeated fines for non-compliance.
– All children's details are to be stored on a central database, with access granted to a wide range of public bodies.
– The Children’s Common Assessment Framework database stores all details of children with problems, indefinitely.
– The Home Office has announced that it wishes to take 19 pieces of information, including mobile-phone and credit-card numbers, from everyone travelling abroad.
Free Expression
– Public-order laws have been used to curtail free expression. A man wearing the slogan “Bollocks to Blair” on his T-shirt was told to remove it by police.
– The Race and Religious Hatred Act (2006) bans incitement of hatred on religious grounds.
– Justice Minister Jack Straw proposes new laws which would ban the incitement of hatred towards the disabled and on the grounds of a person’s sexual orientation
– Terror laws are used to ban freedom of expression in designated areas. Walter Wolfgang was removed from the Labour party conference for heckling Jack Straw. People have been searched simply for wearing slogans on their T-shirts or for carrying banners. A man was detained while collecting signatures against the ID card
– The Protection from Harassment Act (1997) bans the repetition of an act. People prosecuted for repeated protest by email.
– Terror laws ban the glorification of terrorism, which has resulted in the prosecution of a young woman for writing poetry.
The Courts
– ASBO legislation introduces hearsay evidence, which may result in a person being sent to jail.
– The Criminal Justice Act (2003) allows the prosecution to make an application to be heard without a jury where there is a danger of jury tampering. This will include fraud trials.
– The admissibility of evidence concerning a person’s bad character, previous convictions and acquittals.
– The Proceeds of Crime Act (2002) gives the state powers to confiscate assets in circumstances where it does not have enough evidence for prosecution.
–Special Immigration Appeals Court hearings are held in secret. Those terror suspects whose cases come before the court are not allowed to know the evidence against them or to be represented by a lawyer of their own choice.
– The Courts and Tribunals Enforcement Act abandons the tradition of an Englishman’s home being his castle, which since 1604 has made breaking into a home by bailiffs illegal.
Terror Laws
– Terror laws have been used to stop and search ordinary citizens. The current rate is 50,000 per annum.
– A maximum of 28 days without charge is allowed under terror legislation. The government has announced plans to increase this to 42 days.
– Control orders, effectively indefinite house arrest, were introduced after the Belmarsh decision.
Hi People,
Many a night at the bugz studio,Orin and i love to put the world to rights over a few merry berry roll ups. Over the last few years Orin has opened my eyes to alot of information that i never knew about, which has got me thinking in different way than i used to. You may think that this stuff is just conspiracies but if you look up any of the info above you will find that they are part of UK law.
Dont be blinded by fear of terror
light will overcome the darkness
one love blud
mr m force
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Permalink Reply by MARK FORCE on -
So maybe the info about asbo is a miscomprehension, thanks for clarifying that in some cases the hearsay evidence rule is actually to protect witnesses and can be a a good thing. How about the other 26 points made? Do you not have an opinion on the other stuff? Does none of it worry you even a little bit? Seems to me you have some knowledge of the law. And seems to me by unpicking one point of many made, you're trying to undermine and belittle the whole post. Please tell me if I'm wrong.
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Permalink Reply by Verdict on -
Oh shit, sorry I definitely did not mean to undermine the post at all. I'm a trainee lawyer (and love bruk) and saw the post and picked up on the hearsay point because its something a group friends and I were discussing about a week ago.
There has been a flagrant trampling on the freedoms of the individual in recent times. I'd include the UK's link to Guantanamo Bay, an establishment which lives outside the realms of all legal jurisdictions and has assumed the authority to decide whether people are deemed human beings, and treat them in accordingly sub human conditions.
Also another bug bear of mine has been the Home Office's approach to people coming into this country as the husband/wife/civil partner of a British Citizen. You have to produce 20 pieces of mail addressed to both spouses from the last 2 years. I mean jesus, I don't keep anything longer than 6 months, and I know couples that have things in just one name to share the bills! I mean come on!!!
I'd also add the Labour Party's absolute shafting of the trade unions in order to seal the support of the Murdoch papers in 2001 is a shameful example of a government who will ride rough shod over anything to cement their position in power
Anyway yeah, sorry didn't mean to cause any offence, hearsay is just something that's quite topical in my world at the moment.
On a music tip maybe Know Your Enemy by Rage Against the Machine??
Rob
P.S. @ Mark Force, Gypo = Sick. Love that tune
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Permalink Reply by T-Bird on -
wow. good thing i'm not much on english weather.
immigration seems to be getting tighter EVERYWHERE. the exception, of course, is for people who have stacks of cash (big surprise.)
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Permalink Reply by MARK FORCE on
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No offence was taken by your post,
I learnt something that i didn't know from it.
The whole point of this post was to start some debate on this subject
and thanks for your contribution
peace and mud
mark force
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