Archive for March, 2010
Victim or Villain?
Often we see old laws as quirky and out of date, and irrelevant to todays needs. More dangerous to civil liberties and common sense are the new laws which seem to be there solely to collect money – and also destroy lives for the pettiest of reasons. And these laws are the ones that Councils enforce rabidly.
Take the case of a family duo selling goldfish, which resulted in a great grandmother from Manchester being fined £1000 for selling to a teenager. It is against the law to commit this crime.
The 69 year old was tagged after an undercover sting operation where Council Officials sent in a teen to buy a pet – not heroin, not guns or knives… but a goldfish.
As a result Joan Higgins is now tagged, cannot attend bingo and is unable to babysit her great grandchild. Her tag puts her under house arrest for eight months within a curfew period of 7pm till 7am.
This case , according to the Council , is for our safety.
Iain Veitch, head of public protection at Trafford Council, said:
‘Let this conviction send out a message that we will not tolerate those who cause unnecessary suffering to animals.’
Legal proceedings cost the Council £20,000. Who will protect the ordinary people of the UK ?
Amazing Report HERE
" Heil Honey, I'm Home"
Uwe and Hannalore Romeike requested asylum in the US Courts after fleeing Germany so as to home school their children. No, this is not Nazi Germany (Hitler banned homeschooling in 1938 in order that children would be educated in a National Socialist State Education system).
Best selling newspaper of the EU country, Der Welt, concluded in their editorial that the parents ‘were harming their children’ and expressed disgust that the court in the USA would consider harbouring Uwe and Hannalore.
Their application has yet to be ratified with the US Immigration Departmet appealing the decision. In England and Wales, where homeschooling is legal, recent moves to get all homeschoolers registered and subject to checks by local authority officials has faltered due to lack of Parliamerntary time and the forthcoming General Election.
The EU upheld the Nazi ban on homeschooling in Germany , stating that education by its very nature calls for regulation by the State.
Full Report Here
Purpose Made Swag Bag
UK Nanny State Officials have invaded the private residents of students in Exeter in order to ‘educate’ them in ‘safe practices’. In order to drum the message home that residents should keep their doors locked and windows bolted, over 50 homes were entered and goods such as iPods, wallets and purses put in ‘swag bags’, which were then left for the homeowners to find on their return.
Police need a warrant to enter a property without the consent of the occupier. Also suspicion of an offence. Non-Police (see photo) were involved in this operation.
A spokesman said officials were “very careful” to ensure that no criminal offences were committed. Trespass is a civil, not a criminal, offence. The person behind this stunt is either very clever or very silly.
Full Amazing Report HERE
Have You Been Drinking Lemsip , Madam?
The number of precriptions given to people has doubled in the past twenty years. (ref. Nursing Times) and The Independent underlines this statement with the headline ‘ Britain Turning To Prescription Drugs.’
And now a new Drug-Drive Law is being rolled out in the UK which will effect drivers on prescription and over the counter medications. It has been decided that even those drugs which allow people to function are to be looked at from a ‘legal limit’ perspective.
British Medical Association boss Vivienne Nathanson writes:
“At the moment we do not know enough about how drugs affect driving to be able to set limits. We need to identify the drugs most commonly found in accidents, including therapeutic drugs, then carry out research. Once we have a base we are targeting, we would then be in favour of testing for drugs.”
Discriminating and targetting against the sick and the aged is an old trick by bullying governments down the eons – and picking on those who are most likely to be on one form of medication or another is an easy way for the authorities to empty the roads and raise capital funds for important projects such as military campaigns.
The report fails to declare whether the officials testing drivers who will be pulled over would be prescription – free themselves.
AOL report here
Reports have already surfaced of Feds in the USA invading the Social Networking Sites in order to track terrorists, money laundering mafia bosses and (they have had some success with this one) teens who post photographs of themselves drinking underage.
The UK is following in these footsteps by retiring non-tech savvy operatives and hiring bright young things to sit on Facebook all day in order to monitor peoples communications, ideas, thoughts, dreams and other important traffic.
MI5 employment is rising by 40 percent, despite the older generation being booted, Harry Palmer style, through the door.
” Some of the staff aren’t quite perhaps the ones we will want for the future “, said Jonathan Evans, Head of the Security Services in the UK.
Full Report HERE
A new surveillance law is being pushed through in the UK, which would enable the government to open and read private postal mail without the consent or presence of the sender.
Currently postal workers have the right to intercept suspicious letters and packages and pass them to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and then at an agreed moment the item is opened in front of the addressee. The change in the law will mean that HMRC will be able to open whatever it likes without the addressee being present or being made aware of the interception.
As usual, the government and HMRC public relations people underplay the wide-ranging and dangerous nature of this proposal by insisting that the new measure is simply designed to deal with the problem of tobacco smuggling. But the change, disclosed in a document published with the budget, means that HMRC will be able to trawl through private mail pretty much at will.
Full Story Here
