Britain -- Calling the police to account »
Posted By berkeley 8 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsFrom today, it is illegal to photograph the police, despite the fact that they use increasingly aggressive techniques to record us.
Although I write as someone who has no particular axe to grind about the police, I am beginning to wonder whether we have a serious problem with a police force that believes it is entitled to monitor political activity. Set against the new law banning photographs of the police – which surely will be used by every policeman parked on a double yellow line or meting out the rough justice – there is increasing tendency of the police to photograph people in an aggressive fashion. It shows an innate lack of respect for the innocent citizen and the conventions of our free society, which is extremely disturbing.
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Charlson8 months, 3 weeks ago
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Chilling similarities to a dictatorship. The law as written can be broadly interpeted and favorable to the police by evoking "counter-terrorist operations" clause. Much like the broad interpetations of the Patriots Act that was practiced by the Bush administration in the US.
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willottica8 months, 3 weeks ago
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I remember visiting the USSR in 1989. It was illegal to photograph the police or any government building. I thought it oppressive and dictatorial then, and I think it oppressive and dictatorial now.
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Way to go UK! You're finally catching up with the USSR!?
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