I have no problem when the cost of the BBC is 40p a day for those that want to watch the BBC, but what I object to is those who do not want to watch the BBC being forced to pay for it's existence through some pretty dirty methods which if other sales divisions of corporations engaged in, they would be pursued and exposed for their dirty methods of money making.
I further object to be treated as a potential criminal for electing not to watch tv, as when the tv licence sales rep's come to the door you can tell them whatever you want, you don't have a tv, the tv is broke, it's being used for not watching live broadcast, anything, but you won't be believed as they then ask can they come in to check what you have just aid is true, in that question they are implying you are a liar and therefore a potential criminal.
The whole way this license fee gathering has been implemented is plain wrong and perhaps why so many grow against the BBC, for the BBC way back knew damned well they would never get the funding they needed through a voluntary system of payment, so for some reason the government of the time elected to force the licence fee on every house hold there protecting a corporation from one reason for insolvency.
As more and more people wise up to the methods used to screw this money out of people through fear, the more chance the BBC stands to lose it's followers, as oldies pass away and the new generations that questioned and formed opinions come to take their place.
But do you know, I know of one person so far who is continuing to pay their tv licence because of fear, they can't easily pay the licence and admit to having to make sacrifices to pay what is demanded, bearing in mind they are a benefit scrounger, but this person does not have a tv, but is so frazzled by past run ins with the man at the door, it is just not worth the hassle any more to not pay the tv licence. You see what is happening, and this I understand from further research is common in the UK and of the majority who are prosecuted and end up in prison, they are the lowest tiers of society who don't pay, because they can't easily pay or pay at all, I wonder how many of these people who are prosecuted since, just keep paying to avoid the hassle, seeing now as they have form.
The methods of how the BBC/TVL extract the tax should be made fecking illegal, because it is extortion, and where criminals get pursued and charged with extortion, the BBC/TVL remain immune.
If in UK law one is presumed innocent until proven guilty, the onus is on the TVL/BBC to prove someone is acting illegally and as the BBC has alll this wonderous technology to detect tv's being used, that should be their method of catching non payers, not a database which can be any number of things other than correct. But of that database, who authorised it and is it inline with the data protection act, as information being given out to subcontractors to go and use whatever means to ensure a payment from a certain household, is it in line with the data protection act ?
The methods of which the TVL/BBc collect their funding should be examined closely, as there is a lot of questionable activity going on, activity which could actually be illegal in any other sense, if it were not the hallowed BBC that was doing it.
But I wonder, how much of the lack of care shown by some is because they in fact don't care, because their name is Jack and they are alright and so completely forgetting about others who are not so lucky to be alright.
All that is required for evil to triumph is good men do nothing ~ Edmund Burke ( father of the current Tory party)
Apathy and evil. The two work hand in hand. They are the same, really.... Evil wills it. Apathy allows it. Evil hates the innocent and the defenceless most of all. Apathy doesn't care as long as it's not personally inconvenienced. ~ JAKE THOENE, Shaiton's Fire
But for the technically minded regarding the detection technology, some interesting reading, you decide;
http://www.tvlicensing.biz/detection/index.php
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But some tips to avoid being harassed ;
http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Tips%20for% ... ssment.htm
Always useful to remember ;
praemonitus praemunitus
Loosely translating as; Forewarned is Forearmed !
And finally, did you know the vast majority of people prosecuted for non licence paying are women, and that because women are usually the one's at home when the BBC spetsnatz call, that being if you have forgotten to pay your licence for whatever means, it is your spouse at home that will be abused by these people.
it does say eventually..
