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Guardian [UK]

11/27/06

Police are to demand new powers to arrest protesters for causing offence through the words they chant and the slogans on their placards and even headbands. The country's biggest force, the Metropolitan police, is to lobby the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, because officers believe that large sections of the population have become increasingly politicised, and there is a growing sense that the current restrictions on demonstrations are too light. Trouble at recent protests involving Islamic extremists has galvanised the Met's assistant commissioner, Tarique Ghaffur, into planning a crackdown. ... The police want powers to proscribe protest chants and slogans on placards, banners and headbands. Human rights experts say that such powers could also be used against protesters such as animal rights and anti-globalisation activists. The civil rights group Liberty said the powers would make the police 'censors in chief'...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1957831,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Lord+Goldsmith

Suspect Nation

Channel 4 UK - Video

Since Tony Blair's New Labour government came to power in 1997, the UK civil liberties landscape has changed dramatically. The right to remain silent is no longer universal. Our right to privacy, free from interception of communications has been severely curtailed. The ability to travel without surveillance (or those details of our journeys being retained) has disappeared.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15736.htm

Drivers who get stopped by the police could have their fingerprints taken at the roadside, under a new plan to help officers check people's identities.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6170070.stm


From Information Clearing House

BANKS in the UK have been ordered by financial regulators to assess how they would cope in the event of house prices crashing by 40 per cent.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9063-2455507,00.html


From Information Clearing House

The Home Secretary was accused of sexing up the terror threat to boost his chances of becoming Prime Minister.

http://tinyurl.com/w64ge


From Information Clearing House

The City regulator issued a warning to the high street banks yesterday that the "clouds were already darkening" and urged them to prepare for the impact of rising unemployment and the knock-on effect on bad debts.

http://money.guardian.co.uk/saving/banks/story/0,,1948961,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Guardian [UK]

11/16/06

The government's anti-terror law watchdog, Lord Carlile, warned ministers yesterday not to 'rush to judgment' on any decision to attempt to extend the detention without charge of terror suspects beyond the current 28 days. As the independent reviewer of Britain's counter terror laws, the Liberal Democrat peer said he had yet to see the evidence needed to 'fully support' the claim made by the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, that it was 'time to examine the case for longer'...

http://tinyurl.com/y9svq9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Mutter aller Datenbanken
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23944/1.html

Nach Bekanntwerden des Falls wird darüber diskutiert, ob die britische Regierung davon wusste und sich wie beim Auslieferungsgesetz zu sehr den Wünschen der US-Regierung unterworfen hat.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23954/1.html