[Roanoke]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041121/325/f71v2.html

Note:The proposals would see the creation of special anti-terror courts which would sit without juries, allowing information obtained from phone taps to be used as evidence in trials, and civil orders against people suspected of planning terrorism.

Those breaching such orders could face jail even if they have not committed a crime.

[aldo_14]

Incidentally;
Number arrested under current anti-terror laws; 644 (approx)
Number convicted under said laws; 8 (or it could be 9)

[Rictor]

check the other thread, cyper beat you to it.

[Gank]

Eh, yis have been doing this stuff up north since the sixties.

[vyper]

cyper?

*smacks Rictor with a urinal*

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,28014.0.html

[vyper]

[q]Eh, yis have been doing this stuff up north since the sixties.[/q]

That's Ireland, this is mainland Britain. Slight difference.

[Gank]

Guilford four and birmingham six spring to mind.

[Knight Templar]

I wouldn't be suprised if this went through, what with all the reds in power after November 2nd.

[Rictor]

uh, Britain dude.

[aldo_14]

Same government currently advocating storing complete biometric records of all citizens (funded via a paid biometric passpower & card id), sudden police raids to stop & search students at schools (and giving teachers the power to do the same), and also adding nice big x-ray scanners to detect weapons at schools & elsewhere (without safety testing, and which apparently require a naked subject).

[Taristin]

See? I think once you're naked, unless you're terribly well endowed, you are already disarmed.

[Flipside]

Ah, but you never know when those pesky terrorists might invent a subcutaneous detonator

Searches for weapons on Schoolchildren, I can almost understand, but the idea of getting them to strip and stand in front of a camera most be some kind of Catholic school wet-dream of his or something

[Rictor]

It just occured to me that whoever designed the uniforms for Catholic schools must have been a pervert of monumental proportions. If he were around, I'de like to shake his hand.

...after he washes it.

[Flipside]

Thing is, it's hard enough to get a large percentage of our youth to school anyway, and Blunketts cure to that one was to fine the parents

How many kids are going to allow themselves to be put through that kind of humiliation? Schools would end up desolate, the government tends to forget that people under 18 have minds and wills of their own

[Rictor]

Well, I think that much of what the government would like to implement is crazy enough to be rejected somewhere along the line,  including (I hope):

Originally posted by aldo_14
storing complete biometric records of all citizens (funded via a paid biometric passpower & card id), sudden police raids to stop & search students at schools (and giving teachers the power to do the same), and also adding nice big x-ray scanners to detect weapons at schools & elsewhere (without safety testing, and which apparently require a naked subject).

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Rictor
Well, I think that much of what the government would like to implement is crazy enough to be rejected somewhere along the line,  including (I hope):
 

You obviously have never seen the main Uk opposition party.......who more or less support this stuff, so long as a) they can take any credit and b) can use it to throw out asylum seekers and single mothers.