Enemies of the state

[Purple Dalek]

I don't care which side, as long as the other side has plenty to exterminate.

[supremepods]

Enemies of the state?

Helen John 68, and Sylvia Boyes 62, Brian Haw 56, Walter Wolfgang 82

A good friend of mine is a police officer and until recently worked for one of the Special Operations departments doing surveillance work. This usually involved following people involved in high-value fraud or people trafficking. Nearly all of the police surveillance teams have recently been disbanded and they now form one huge group of officers to be sent to wherever they are needed. As a result my friend and most of his colleagues now spend their time following around people like those listed above, gathering evidence of "subversive activity" such as wearing overcoats in the summer, forgetting their PIN numbers in Tesco or driving within the speed limit and other such heinous crimes. Tssssk

[threaded]

A good friend of mine is a police officer and until recently worked for one of the Special Operations departments doing surveillance work. This usually involved following people involved in high-value fraud or people trafficking. Nearly all of the police surveillance teams have recently been disbanded and they now form one huge group of officers to be sent to wherever they are needed. As a result my friend and most of his colleagues now spend their time following around people like those listed above, gathering evidence of "subversive activity" such as wearing overcoats in the summer, forgetting their PIN numbers in Tesco or driving within the speed limitand other such heinous crimes. Tssssk

Of course. It is, after all, only fair.

I blame IR35.

[Lucifer Box]

A good friend of mine is a police officer and until recently worked for one of the Special Operations departments doing surveillance work. This usually involved following people involved in high-value fraud or people trafficking. Nearly all of the police surveillance teams have recently been disbanded and they now form one huge group of officers to be sent to wherever they are needed. As a result my friend and most of his colleagues now spend their time following around people like those listed above, gathering evidence of "subversive activity" such as wearing overcoats in the summer, forgetting their PIN numbers in Tesco or driving within the speed limit and other such heinous crimes. Tssssk

Seems only right and proper. After all, under this government forgetting your password is now punishable by two years in chokey.

I read this article in The Independent this morning and I have to say I empathised greatly with "those who understand what has gone on in Britain have the sense of being in one of those nightmares where you are crying out to warn someone of impending danger, but they cannot hear you."

Even they underplayed it though when talking about the police's unprecedented powers to detain citizens and forcibly take DNA samples. They are still labouring in the mistaken belief that commission of a crime has to be suspected by the arresting officer. Since January of this year any holder of a warrant card can arrest a citizen if the holder "believes it to be necessary". Oh, and warrant cards are now to be issued to civil servants at the CPS, allowing the state to directly detain citizens for the first time since Magna Carta.

[Central-Scrutiniser]

Oh, and warrant cards are now to be issued to civil servants at the CPS, allowing the state to directly detain citizens for the first time since Magna Carta.

And there are those whom inisist our Government has achieved little.

[Lucifer Box]

Oh, and warrant cards are now to be issued to civil servants at the CPS, allowing the state to directly detain citizens for the first time since Magna Carta.

And there are those whom inisist our Government has achieved little.

Still, I'm sure if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear. These new powers are to cater for exceptional and unusual circumstances as part of the global war on terror and will be used sparingly, appropriately and only as a matter of last resort. Like if you are a NuLie minister heckled by an 80 year old concentration camp survivor, sorry, terrorist.