All posts in the topic Big Brother Society - 24 years later than expected. (Short link)
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- Latest post made by Gavin Sealey at May 22 04:02 UTC
Came across this a day or so ago: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=566007&in_page_id=1770 The document can be downloaded from here: http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/797752 The BNP think it's a good idea, so that's alright then: http://www.bnp.org.uk/2008/05/town-halls-should-map-race-and-religion-to-identify-tension-hotspots-says-hazel-blears/ No doubt Newham will take a lead on this (a possible new role for the Keystone Kops - sorry, I mean the Parks Constabulary, formerly the "Community" Constabulary). I wonder what our MPs and Councillors make of this! A good thing, a bad idea, perhaps we should be told?
And there's more: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article3965033.ece
Mike is this the same New/Noo Labour Hazel Blears who in March 2005 told the
Home Affairs Select Committee with glee "Dealing with the counter-terrorist
threat and the fact that at the moment the threat is most likely to come from
those people associated with an extreme form of Islam, or falsely hiding behind
Islam, if you like, in terms of justifying their activities, inevitably means
that some of our counter-terrorist powers will be disproportionately
experienced by people in the Muslim community" and went on later that year
while Charles Clarke (the then Home Secretary) was on holiday, to try to
introduce the 'rebranding' of ethnic minorities in favour of adopting US-style
hyphenated titles such as 'Asian-British-Englishman', a move quickly distanced
by Blair and the rest of his cabinet... is it that Hazel Blears ?
This Guardian article written in 2002 makes the Newham connection and may be of interest: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4432506,00.html I am perhaps overly fond of referring to Newham as the most diverse spot on Earth. Could it also be a contender for being the planet's most surveilled spot? Gavin Sealey