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stopped and searched under the terrorism act
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Psycopathy and presumed authority are a bad combination.
These searches have nothing to do with catching terrorists and "improving security".
Beats doing nothing
Taking what seriously?
Harrassing and haranguing innocent people? Destroying every democratic freedom we have? Murdering thousands of people for personal economic gain?
Do you seriously think Bliar gives a fuck who gets blown up, so long as it ain't him?
Stop-and-search is all about making the masses obedient, it has nothing to do with catching criminals. ID cards have nothing to do with making us safer, and everything to do with making it impossible to not obey the people in power now.
Anyone who thinks the police are doing something useful in stopping random people are naive fools.
In your opinion maybe. I would rather they at least tried than did nothing.
It almost beggars belief that random searches have now become something we are to expect, go along meekly and be fine with because they MAY POSSIBLY POTENTIALLY ONE DAY stop a attack that may or may not be a terrorist attack, or rather someone reaching into their jacket pocket for a banana. If they tried to stop me I'm sure I would object loudly, though maybe I'll have to reconsider since I'm not all that keen on being shot to death.
Yes i see his point but i don't see it like that.
Absolutely.
They're doing nothing, don't you get it? They're doing fuck all to prevent terrorism. They're doing fuck all to prevent even low-level crime.
They're doing everything they can to keep tabs on you- what you wear, what you carry, where you go, what you eat and drink. They're doing everything they can to make sure they have all your details, up to and including DNA details. They're deliberately targeting normal people because normal people will do what they're told. Obedient sheeple are so much easier to control.
Can you seriously put your hand on your heart and say that they're doing this to "prevent terrorism". Can you really say that?
If you can I fear for this country. Policemen are the border collies of society, herding all us sheeple into the pen where we won't be any bother and we can be put through the abbatoir when the time is right.
And will we stand up against it? No. They might shoot us. The suicide bomber doesn't care if he gets shot, does he?
Aren't they guilty until proven otherwise these days? Urrgh.
Nah, that's only if you're black.
They don't care if the rest of us are innocent or guilty, so long as we put up with their controlling shit because they're "doing something" to "protect" us.
If Bliar gave a fuck about our safety would he have started world war three?
There admittedly isn’t much logic in stopping elderly women and rifling through their handbags but random searches are absolutely necessary. A high police presence and a public perception that random searches can happen is one way of fighting terrorism.
Scarlettleeds – I assume you would object to being searched before getting on an aeroplane? After all you’re not a terrorist and you’re hardly going to take a handgun on to a plane so any search is an infringement of civil liberties...Yawn. In the real world a little bit of inconvenience is a small price to pay for safety and better protection.
Like it or not they want to because of the actions of the same people who now want to "protect" us. The reason the governments in the US and UK (hah!) are bothered about this is they can see the end of their predations if they can be blown to shit themselves everytime they decide to bomb some poor foreign neighbourhood.
You CANNOT stop suicide bombers. So why take all the freedoms that are supposedly protected if all you want to do is protect those freedoms?
Bollocks.
Certainly not from arming a bunch of unaccountable psychopaths and setting them loose on the streets.
If it is to stop drug dealers, as in arrest someone with drugs on them, or catch a person who looks suspicious such as they may be concealing a gun or a knife or something. Then it is an arguable measure, though since we have had 3 police shootings recently resulting from stop and searches, they probably are pointless as the person concealing a weapon will just use it.
Yes, stop and search is pointless. Besides, i wouldnt want anyone find me carrying home a stack of porn dvds. But i will probably be ok, i am a white, middle class, smartly dressed male with an flawless calming accent, what do i have to worry about...
Careful you're starting to sound like Clan......it's all one big conspiracy theory right?