Cllr. Gavin Ayling

There is a country where you can have a record held by the police for the rest of your natural life for doing absolutely nothing. This country has designated areas where protest is not allowed for no reason other than the fear of the corrupt ruling elite.

In this country operatives are known to act outside the law on behalf of organisations who do not report either to this corrupt country’s government or its people. Further this country is highly suspected of allowing innocent people to be kidnapped and tortured.

This country is the United Kingdom. Don’t vote Labour at the next election… please.

Excerpts from: “ID protester stopped and filmed under terror law will have police record for life”, By Philip Johnston 31/01/2006

Mark Wallace was outside the Labour Party conference in Brighton last autumn when he was detained under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The measure gives officers wide powers to stop anyone in a designated area, whether or not they are acting suspiciously.

Mr Wallace, who is campaign manager for the Freedom Association, said he had subsequently asked Sussex police what they proposed to do with the record of the encounter and was told the written version would be permanently retained.

A video of his detention would be held for seven years, even though he had done nothing wrong.

Christopher Gill, chairman of the Freedom Association, said: “These laws are terrifyingly wide ranging, and fail even to demand suspicion in order to stop someone and thus list them for life.

“They are being over-used, and innocent people are having their records marked as a result. The police are supposed to protect the innocent from the guilty, not smear their records arbitrarily.”

During the Labour conference, 426 people were stopped under section 44 and none was charged or convicted. Official figures show that nationally 119,000 people were stopped under the powers between 2001 and early 2005, and only 1,515
of these were arrested. Figures for 2005 are expected to be far higher after the London bombings last July.

Section 44 bestows exceptional powers on the police to stop and search at random, once a particular geographical area has been designated by a chief officer as one that might be targeted by terrorists and authorised as such by the Home Secretary.

Sussex police confirmed that they held stop-and-search records indefinitely and videos for seven years. The Terrorism Act does not specify what should happen to the information.

While Labour was in Brighton, the whole of the city was a designated area.

Unlike with normal stop-and-search powers, police are not required to have “reasonable suspicion” that an offence is being committed.

You know what the problem with the cartoons is don’t you? The problem is that freedom of speech is something that some parts of the world are not willing to accept.

I am sorry if something offends you, but that’s not the intention — in the west we have a sense of humour and all cultures, all institutions and all aspects of life are fair game. Offensive jokes are, to most people, funnier for the guilt of finding it funny.

If parts of the world do not like this aspect of the west, that is fine — don’t. But that should be balanced with the same dislike we have for the third world’s treatment of women, homosexuals and other ‘different’ people.

We won’t make Saudi Arabia legalise alcohol for expats and the Middle East and other patriarchal societies and cultures shouldn’t change if that’s what their people want. The same should go for France, Germany, Denmark and England and immigrants of non-European cultures.

The following has been lifted directly from the Coeliac UK newsletter. This should be of particular interest to anyone concerned about trace-amounts of gluten in food and could lead to a more restricted diet for us coeliacs!

Coeliac UK has been successful in its proposal submitted to the FSA to review the literature on gluten-free threshold levels and will be working in collaboration with a Cochrane reviewer, Dr Tony Akobeng, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist at the Booth Hall Children’s Hospital. Doctor Akobeng has carried out many literature reviews for the Cochrane library (a database of scientific reviews). The aim is to publish findings in the autumn and input to the International Codex meeting in November.