"Peter Parry" wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 May 2005 12:34:45 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:
"Peter Parry" wrote in message
There's often a police car outside our house. I don't think it's done us
any
harm.
Others have not been so lucky "Pub cellarman Ian Lawless, 40, and his
unemployed godson, Gary Lawson, 20, firebombed former tugboat skipper
Alf Wilkins's Grimsby flat... They struck after reading he had been
accused of molesting a nine-year-old girl on their estate. "
"A 14 year old girl was burnt alive in the West Midlands when
vigilantes firebombed her home, wrongly believing a paedophile was
living there"
"Francis Duffy, 67, was nearly beaten to death after the Manchester
Evening News published a picture of a paedophile who looked like him"
"Hello Jim, saw you by our neighbours this morning" "Yes - it's about
this missing girl - we got their name off the computer so went to
chat to them. Didn't get anything out of them though" Won't ever
harm anyone will it?
You've been reading the newspapersagain.
There is nowhere else in the world where such a draconian system as
being proposed for the UK is in use or even contemplated.
Evidence?
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/pre...F/IDreport.pdf
Clause 1 and Schedule 1 of the Bill sets out more than fifty
categories of information that may be required for the register
(subject to change by regulation). Along with the standard
identifiers such as name, birth coordinates, current and previous
addresses and residential status, the register is also mandated to
contain such data as biometric details, full chronology of
residential location in the UK and overseas, a record of all dealings
between the individual and the Register and a full audit trail of
access and disclosure activity on the Register.
The Bill creates many new offences including:-
Refusal to obey an order from the Secretary of State.
Failure to notify authorities about a lost, stolen, damaged or
defective card.
Failure to renew a card.
Failure to submit to fingerprinting.
Failure to provide information demanded by the government.
Failure to attend an interview at a specified place and time.
Failure to notify the Secretary of State of any change in
personal circumstances (including change of address).
Failure to obey an order to register.
Providing false information.
Penalties range from £1,000 fine to two years imprisonment.
A penalty of up to £2,500 can be levied for failure to attend an
appointment for a scan of fingerprints and iris. This fine can be
repeated for each and every subsequent failure to attend.
My you HAVE been busy :-)
Happy with all that? Especially as the scheme is expected to have
almost no impact upon crime, terrorism or immigration.
I'm neither happy nor unhappy, just unmoved.
Mary
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Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/