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I refuse to accept EU justice

September 22, 2006 Federal Europe, Police State No comments

The Home Secretary is in Finland today for a meeting with other home affairs and justice ministers from Federal Europe where he will be instructed to give up the UK’s veto on justice.

The vice president of the European Federation’s commission for justice, liberty and security – Franco Frattini – has said that the only way the UK can be safe from terrorism is to allow the federalist crooks in Brussels complete control of our justice system.

Obviously he didn’t use those words.

He says it’s time to put aside our “national jealousies” and allow police, secret services, courts and prosecutors to extend their jurisdiction across the whole of Federal Europe.  Worryingly, he says that this should extend to accusations of racism or xenophobia.

Frattini says that we should trust Federal Europe with our justice system.  He says he things Habea Corpus and trial by jury are great and should be applied elsewhere in Federal Europe … but what about the rest of Federal Europe?  They’re all quite keen on their backwards legal system where you are guilty until proven innocent and can be locked up for years just on the accusation of your next door neighbour if the accusation sounds feasible.  And what about Frattini’s successor?  Will he be of the same opinion?  Doubtful, that wouldn’t further the federal dream.

If we lose the veto then he aims to make it easier for national police forces to exchange information and to consult each others DNA databases.

In a blatant attempt to scare the public into supporting this hideous power grab by the European Federation he explains that “The precondition is, of course, mutual trust,” and “If you say mutual trust doesn’t exist, fine, but in that case terrorists will win.”

There you have it – if we don’t trust the European federalists who want to establish a federal European superstate and impose their inferior and incompatible Napoleonic legal system on us then we’re handing victory to the terrorists.

Here’s my suggestion.  Tell Frattini to go and take a running jump.  Leave the EU immediately and cease all funding.  Repeal any and all EU laws that force us to accept immigrants or asylum seekers – the method that a lot of wannabe terrorists use to get into this country.  Sack Reid, Blair and anyone else responsible for integrating us further into the European Federation and charge them with treason.  When we control our own foreign and domestic policies and our own legal system, then we can deal with would-be terrorists.

And I do declare, That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm.

Bill of Rights

Trust the EU?  I would rather trust a strapped-up suicide bomber than that bunch of crooks. 

Hat-tip: Englishman’s Castle

Who’s footing the police bill?

September 19, 2006 Labour, Police State 2 comments

The Labour Party conference is imminent and delegates are being security checked before they get their pass.

Who will be paying for these few thousand police checks and for the massive police presence at the conference?  I’m guessing it won’t be the Labour Party.

Another little tidying up exercise

September 18, 2006 Police State One comment

John Reid, the North British Home Secretary of England, has announced new plans to stop people from getting off convictions on technicalities.

He is referring to things such as the police failing to read a suspects rights correctly or police using out-of-date warrants to search properties.  There is, of course, a lot of money to be made from getting people off offences on technicalities – a lot of footballers and celebrities would have been banned from driving long ago if it weren’t for these technicalities.

This is being sold as another one of those tidying up exercises like the Legal and Legislative Reform Bill (aka the Abolition of Parliament Act) and the EU Constitution but there’s an important principle at point here.  If a person hasn’t been read their rights correctly then due process hasn’t been followed and, according to the law, that person can’t be charged.  Similarly, if a person gets off on a technicality then that is because, under that technical point of law, the person hasn’t committed an offence or can’t be punished.

This isn’t somebody escaping the law, it is the law.

Taking Power Lords Reform Competition

September 17, 2006 Police State 2 comments

Taking Power are running a competition to find the best suggestion for Lords Reform.

I will, of course, be sending in the suggestions that I wrote in the BlogWar I did a while back with Gavin Ayling.

Vote Whoring

September 15, 2006 Labour, Police State No comments

It’s seems today is destined to be a day for vote-whoring.  While McDave up in North Britain telling them that the English are ignorant and the cause of all their problems including, but not limited to, STD’s, obesity, infant mortality and the price of battered mars bars, the Labour Stazi has been electioneering with English hospitals.

Hazel Blears and Patricia Hewitt, the Labour Stazi Chairman and Health Secretary respectively, arranged a series of meetings with Labour Stazi officials to discuss hospitals closures and “reconfigurations”.  The meetings were provided with “heat maps” showing Labour marginal seats so that NHS cuts could be arranged in seats they don’t stand a chance of winning whilst avoiding marginal seats where bugering up their local health service could jeapordise their seats.

One word – malfeasance.

New Child Seat Law

September 15, 2006 Federal Europe, Police State 2 comments

A new law comes into effect on Monday passed by the British government on the instructions of the European Federation in EU Directive 2003/20/EC.  The law will make it an offence to have a child in your car without a car seat.

There are exceptions – if it’s an emergency, if a third seat won’t fit in the middle of the back seat or if you’re in a taxi.  It will also only apply to children under 11 years of age or 4’6″.

The European Federation says that the ruling has been made to reduce the number of child injuries in car accidents because if a child is sitting in a child seat or on a booster cushion the seatbelt will be in a safer position on the childs body if there were a crash and that would reduce the risk of damaging organs.

Now, I’m all for improving safety, especially where children are involved.  However, I see a problem with this argument and it’s a pretty major flaw.  I don’t know if there’s is that much genetic difference between English kids and kids from the continent but, you see, English kids grow as they get older.  That means that the seatbelt will be in a different place on the childs body throught the 11 years the child will be required to sit in the seat.  I am therefore at a complete loss as to which part of the childs body is “safer”.

What about a PASBO?

September 5, 2006 Police State No comments

The British government, under the benevolent leadership of Chairman Bliar, is planning to slap ASBO’s on entire families – including unborn children.

The theory is that kids born into scutter families are probably going to turn out to be tearaways themselves.  It’s a good theory and quite accurate.  Upbringing and parental discipline are important in the development of a child and given a broken home or crap parents, the child will most likely turn out to be a little shit.

However, the British government’s plan to monitor young children from birth on the basis that they are likely to grow up to be naughty boys and girls is just plain wrong.  There hasn’t been any mention of what part the new childrens database will play in this but my guess is that it will be a pivotal part of the whole plan.  The childrens database is being sold as a tool to protect children from paedophiles and child abusers but it clearly isn’t.  The childrens database is the juvenile equivallent of the national identity register and nothing to do with child safety.

The fact is that most people don’t want identity cards, a national identity register or a childrens database.  We don’t want young children monitored from birth and having ASBO’s put on them before they’re even born.  The British government is constantly and consistently acting against our wishes and interests and it’s about time it stopped.  To put a stop to this I propose the introduction of the PASBO – the Politician ASBO.  The PASBO will force politicians to do what they are told to do, what they were elected to do and what they say they’re going to do and if they don’t then they either get community service litter picking condoms on Brighton beach or an extended stay at Her Majesty’s pleasure.

EU Constitution poll

September 4, 2006 Britain, England, Federal Europe, Police State, Regions No comments

A man from Patriotic Poll has contacted me about a poll they have on the EU Constitution.  The question is simple – Should the UK ratify the treaty establishing an EU constitution?  This is the question the British government said they were going to ask us but, as early indications showed the constitution stood about as much chance as a ghost’s fart in a force 10 gale of getting approved, they predictably cancelled the vote.

It’s the wrong type of patriotism for me – British rather than English – but I’m happy to work for the common good.  Click here to vote.

Thanks Defra

September 1, 2006 England, Police State, Technology 5 comments

Defra have created a wiki for an Environmental Contract.  Wiki’s are a collaborative tool in which web users can contribute to the content and help build up a kind of online encyclopaedia.  For an organisation, such as a government department, there is the option to restrict who can make changes to the wiki in question.  Nobody appears to have told Defra this though and some enterprising individuals have been making some helpful changes.

This page obviously isn’t going to last long so, for posterities sake … click here.

Hat-tip: Devils Kitchen

Update:
Someone at Defra has reverted the pages back to their original state but the good news is that the old revisions are preserved by tagging ?revision=### where ### is a number from 139 downwards.  For example: http://wiki.defra.gov.uk/WikiHome/EnvironmentContract?revision=139

Hidden Speed Camera Van

August 27, 2006 Police State One comment

Went to a party last night in Newport (Shropshire, not West Britain or Isle of Wight) and passed a speed camera van.  Approaching the van it was perfectly visible but coming in the opposite direction it was completely hidden behind a wall and bushes.  The speed camera partnerships say that speed cameras aren’t about making money, they’re there to deter motorists from speeding – this is why they’re painted in bright colours.  If this is the case then why was this particular van hidden behind a wall?

The speed camera van was out in Shrewsbury today (I wonder if they get paid double time for working on a Sunday?) outside the college.  I can understand the logic of putting a speed camera outside of the college if the intention was to keep the students safe from people driving too fast but when the college has been closed for over a month for the summer holidays, exactly who is the speed camera supposed to be protecting?

Speeding isn’t dangerous – driving too fast is.  There is a difference.  It can be safe to drive at 80mph on a wide open straight road with no houses or junctions in a new car and a few years driving experience – this is speeding.  It isn’t safe to drive at 60mph in a 30mph limit outside a school at 3pm on a Monday afternoon in term time – this is driving too fast.  It is for this reason that speed cameras are so flawed.  A person with a camera can judge whether you are driving too fast but a camera can’t.  Some people aren’t capable of driving at the speed limit – once you reach a certain age your reactions are too slow to drive safely at the speed limit.  A person with a camera can judge whether you are driving safely but a camera can’t.

Big Brother’s bin watching you

August 27, 2006 England, Police State No comments

Source: Mail on Sunday

Around 500,000 housholds in England have had their wheelie bins secretly microchipped so that they can be uniquely identified.  This opens up opportunies for charging residents for the amount of rubbish they produce, something that will most impact young families who can’t recycle nappies, baby wipes, etc.

Some dustbin lorries already have weighing equipment fitted so implementing this policy will be relatively easy.  Local Authorities already have the power to tell you how and when your rubbish must be made available.  They can force you to recycle, refuse to accept certain items and in theory could even force you to take your wheelie bin to a collection point 10 miles down the road if they so wish with thousands of pounds in fines for refusing to obey their instructions.

Council criticised for opposing ID cards

August 26, 2006 Police State, Wales No comments

Two councils in West Britain have been criticised by British Labour MP for Caerphilly, Wayne David, for pledging their opposition to the ID Card scam.

The two councils – Cardiff and Ceredigion – both feel that ID cards will be expensive and useless and are refusing to take part in any trials or to require its use for services unless required to do so by law.

Wayne David MP said that it was unhelpful because we are at risk from terrorism. The British government has already withdrawn its claim that ID cards will prevent terrorism. He said that it is “incumbent” on local authorities to support the scheme. I wonder if Mr David intentionally used the word incumbent or perhaps didn’t realised that incumbent means obligatory. ID cards are voluntary aren’t they?

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