On 10/23/05, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the risk of reviving a moribund thread, here is an interesting news story > from today's BBC site about the increased use in Britain of police stop & > search powers: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4368524.stm > > This is one of the most telling paragraphs: > "The powers allow police to stop and search people without the need to show > that they have "reasonable suspicion" an offence is being committed. " > > This means they can stop and search anyone at anytime, and they do not have > to account for their actions. This is in addition to the power they now have > to incarcerate people indefinitely without trial. > > And what about this: > "There were just four searches in Humberside in 2003/4, yet in the last > three months, there were 1,830. " > > An increase on this scale cannot possibly be justified by the supposed > increase in the threat of terrorism.
we now live in a police state (since in the post 911 world we all have similar increases in police power with lack of accountability). -frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
