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glaurungTwo articles, second one excerpted. I know there isn't any viable party in the UK other than Labour right now, but how much more of this is it going to take to force a change of party leadership?
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/hampshire/southampton/news/SOTON_NEWS_NEWS0.html
M-way photos fall foul
by Ushma Mistry
A HAMPSHIRE student was stopped and warned by police under new anti-terror laws - for taking pictures of the M3.
Matthew Curtis had been gathering images for the website of a design company where he works part-time when he was stopped, searched and cautioned.
The 21-year-old was told that he was in a "vulnerable area" as he snapped pictures of the M3 and was made to account for his actions before he was issued with a warning and told not to do it again.
Officers, who had quoted the Prevention of Terrorism Act, today apologised for causing concern but say they were just being vigilant.
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17909-1829289,00.html
Two wheels: good. Two legs: terrorist suspect
By David Lister, Scotland Correspondent
WITH her year-round tan, long blonde hair and designer clothes, Sally Cameron does not look like a threat to national security.
But the 34-year-old property developer has joined the ranks of Britain’s most unlikely terrorist suspects after being held for hours for trespassing on a cycle path.
Ms Cameron was being hailed yesterday as Scotland’s answer to Walter Wolfgang, the 82-year-old heckler manhandled out of the Labour Party conference last month. She was arrested under the Terrorism Act for walking along a cycle path in the harbour area of Dundee.
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Keith Berry, the harbour master at Forth Ports Dundee, said yesterday that Ms Cameron had been seen as a “security risk”. Speaking about the incident, which took place in May, he said: “We contacted the police in regards to this matter because the woman was in a secure area which forbids people walking. It was seen as a security risk. We were following guidelines in requirement with the port security plan set up by the Government.”
A spokesman for Forth Ports said: “We will robustly prosecute anyone who breaches these new security measures because they have been introduced by the Government and we are obliged to enforce them.”
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/hampshire/southampton/news/SOTON_NEWS_NEWS0.html
M-way photos fall foul
by Ushma Mistry
A HAMPSHIRE student was stopped and warned by police under new anti-terror laws - for taking pictures of the M3.
Matthew Curtis had been gathering images for the website of a design company where he works part-time when he was stopped, searched and cautioned.
The 21-year-old was told that he was in a "vulnerable area" as he snapped pictures of the M3 and was made to account for his actions before he was issued with a warning and told not to do it again.
Officers, who had quoted the Prevention of Terrorism Act, today apologised for causing concern but say they were just being vigilant.
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17909-1829289,00.html
Two wheels: good. Two legs: terrorist suspect
By David Lister, Scotland Correspondent
WITH her year-round tan, long blonde hair and designer clothes, Sally Cameron does not look like a threat to national security.
But the 34-year-old property developer has joined the ranks of Britain’s most unlikely terrorist suspects after being held for hours for trespassing on a cycle path.
Ms Cameron was being hailed yesterday as Scotland’s answer to Walter Wolfgang, the 82-year-old heckler manhandled out of the Labour Party conference last month. She was arrested under the Terrorism Act for walking along a cycle path in the harbour area of Dundee.
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Keith Berry, the harbour master at Forth Ports Dundee, said yesterday that Ms Cameron had been seen as a “security risk”. Speaking about the incident, which took place in May, he said: “We contacted the police in regards to this matter because the woman was in a secure area which forbids people walking. It was seen as a security risk. We were following guidelines in requirement with the port security plan set up by the Government.”
A spokesman for Forth Ports said: “We will robustly prosecute anyone who breaches these new security measures because they have been introduced by the Government and we are obliged to enforce them.”
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Date: 2005-10-19 10:07 pm (UTC)There will be no change of party leadership, or not until Blair decides to leave. Labour is spineless. Blair and his goons are bastards, but they are the Labour Party's own pet bastards. Party 'discipline' will keep them free from serious challenge. And most politically active lefties in this country either belong to the Labour Party or have left it in disgust (membership halved - literally - since Blair came to power in 1997). Even the Guardian pulls its punches with New Labour, because the last thing it wants to do is give comfort to the enemy - the Tories. (Come to that, I don't want to give comfort to the Tories, either.)
Meanwhile, all the 'little Hitlers', as my parents' generation would have called them, are creeping out of their holes. Christ knows where it will all end.
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Date: 2005-10-19 10:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-20 09:51 am (UTC)Which raises the question, is all this purely stupid bumbling, or is it something more sinister, designed to keep us all from stepping out of line? With the added refinement that no one has a clue exactly where the line is supposed to be drawn. I wish I knew.