On a serious note...please read...

[ferrus]

Yeah, the rural life is just bliss in comparison. And what's more, it all stinks of shit !

Excellent !

 

[awaycaboose]

Speaking for myself, I am a Socialist, anti war,anti blood sport, anti Nazi, veggie nutter!

But don't let that put you off. The sad thing is nothing comes as a shock to me anymore!

Al. :roll:

+1 here, oh and I've signed.

 

[tintin40]

Speaking for myself, I am a Socialist, anti war,anti blood sport, anti Nazi, veggie nutter!

But don't let that put you off. The sad thing is nothing comes as a shock to me anymore!

Al. :roll:

+1 here, oh and I've signed.

+2 BUT again I'm a bit of every thing. Certainly not on the right. But some times wars are necessary eg-WW2, Falklands. Eat meat. No such thing as 'blood sport' it's killing for fun.
We all know this law will be abused by the 'boys in blue' :roll:

 

[lumos2000]

I was simply providing a point of balance. Do you know anyone who has ever been wrongly arrested on terror charges or beaten up by the police? You might but probably you don't. Usual media hype as they have acquired some juicy photos and video at no cost to themselves as certain groups have an axe to gring.

Now being able to arrest climate protestors for thinking about protesting. That I have an issue with.

i wish i had a camera when a police car stopped by my mate on the way home from the pub. out jumped a policeman pinned him to the wall and proceded to punch him in the face repetedly, his colegue had to pull him off. what was my mate doing i hear you ask, singing pink floyd out of tune and possibley a little to loud.
it only takes one to spoil it for all!

 

[velomaniac]

The BBC is connected to the government as are the police and the BBC
films and photographs the police and then broadcasts around the world including into terrorists homes. Does this means the goverment/BBC/public etc are all under arrest :shock:

Madness :roll:

 

[BoyBurning]

The BBC is connected to the government as are the police

What?

Er, no they're not!

Where the hell d'ya get that from?

Is the UK a police state? No

Does the UK have freedom of press? Yes.

The BBC is a trust, funded by the license payer. It has nothing to do with the Government.

 

[tintin40]

[/quote] Where the hell d'ya get that from?
Is the UK a police state? No
Does the UK have freedom of press? Yes.
The BBC is a trust, funded by the license payer. It has nothing to do with the Government.[/quote]

Police state - Nearly in a quite sort of way.

Where do they get all their money from. Makes the laws/ Rules?? The Government . It will call the tune they will sing to (if reluctantly some times)
1984 is here. Just looks different than the book

 

[Augustus]

For a moment of balance, the police do not pass laws. They simply enforce laws put in place by the poloticians that we elect. The article itself says 'The law states that if anyone takes a picture of a policeman/woman/officer in duty it will be considered illegal if they prove connections to terrorism.' So if you are not a terrorist you are unaffected.

Are we really going to lump all the police out there doing a job we do not want to into the same rotten pot as the guys alledgedly 'lashing out' at protesters (even if no evidence is put forward to prove or disprove any aggravating circumstances leading up to the incident)?

You are not allowed to take photos in museums either and we own the stuff in them. Does this deserve a petition?

Come on folks, lets not fall into the 'police state' panic that certain sectors of society would have us believe that we are 'sleep walking into'.

And breathe....

I personally believe in the rule of law and the necessity of a police force, as i'm sure do most people if given the alternative of anarchy.

The sad thing to me here is that rulings such as this are open to personal interpretation and abuse.

I don't know any terrorists. Yet I do know many photographers that have been stopped and had their memory cards inspected under 'anti-terrorist; legislation in London in the last year or two. This rule is just another little slide in the wrong direction. If they refuse to hand them over, they are threatened with marching orders and arrest. Ridiculous. But that's a previous ruling along the lines of not being allowed to photograph a public building without a permit. I kid you not. :roll:

I'm all for more power for the police. But if it's used wisely. Too often these days, common sense is bypassed in favour of what can only be cynically looked at as revenue collection and or abuse of power unecessarily. Easy collars. Control. Sad.

You know what? I wish my govt would stop banging on about the amount of terrorists running about Britain about to undermine our way of living and eroding our civil liberties (govt doing a pretty good job of that on it's own) and threatening us all on an hourly basis.....


...and would start to tackle issues like actual crime and violence caused by your common or garden 12yr old.


I bet you're much more likely to get killed by a yoof than a terrorist in modern day Britain.

Change the rules. Make things better, not worse. There's a target for a govt.

 

[Dr S]

Very well put Wu

Wu-Tangled for president!

 

[tintin40]

But that's a previous ruling along the lines of not being allowed to photograph a public building without a permit. I kid you not. :shock:


Nobody stops the tourists round my place of work. :|