UPDATE:- And Gordon Brown wants _YOUR_ body….
David Davis
…and so….East Germany and the STASI, here we come, lads. And a £5,000 fine for NOT telling the Gestapo Gazpachio where you are going, when, with what money, your reason for travel, who with, what carrier, what credit cards you own, and the like.
More than 24 hours in advance.
So, I guess, they can stop you in time if you once said something they don’t like you are a terrorist.
David Davis
Time for what The Landed Underclass calls a “harrumph”. Trouble is, if we don’t harrumph, then the Enemy Class will think we approve. it will of course do no good, for their plans for us will not change, but at least we have registered our displeasure. I expect the death penalty for “crimes against the State People” will be resurfacing soon.
I advise all UK readers to get dual-citizenship with some other civilised country, such as Russia or Bolivia or Western Samoa (they just came into my head then, that’s all) as soon as possible.
I see the Tories are no better – ‘Of course we need a record of people entering and leaving the country’.
So I guess they’ll support something similar.
We don’t need such records, there is no purpose to them except population monitoring.
Terrorists will get around it anyway.
Yup.
It’s all in the name of course of “combating terrorism”. bet you 50p they won’t log Gerrycan Adams or Martin Froth-Guinness.
What’s wrong with knowing who leaves? Every other country stamps your passport when leaving. Obviously there is no need to know anything else.
Nothing wrong with that at all: it’s the other stuff we are worried about, like having to tell them _IN ADVANCE_, on pain of fines etc, and all the other irrelevant data like how much moneyw e have and who with, and where we live, and shit like that.
Bm:
Because it’s none of the State’s Goddamn business. ny interference with _leaving_ the couintry is a _direct human rights violation_.
And by demanding this information, The State gets the power to investigate you, detain you, frame you, lock you up for nothing, ruin your reputation, make it impossible for you to GET INTO another country for escape purposes and thus destroy your life…
That enough reason to oppose it?
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK THE STATE CAN POSSIBLY WANT SUCH POWERS FOR???
To kiss your sorry ass goodbye?
Tony
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http://www.amnesty.org
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 1
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights
They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act
towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth
in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as
race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other
opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other
status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis
of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the
country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be
independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other
limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 4
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the
slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person
before the law.
Article 7
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any
discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled
to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of
this Declaration and against any incitement to such
discrimination.
Article 8
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent
national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights
granted him by the constitution or by law.
Article 9
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or
exile.
Article 10
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public
hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the
determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal
charge against him.
Article 11
(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be
presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a
public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary
for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account
of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal
offence, under national or international law, at the time when
it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than
the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was
committed.
Article 12
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his
privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon
his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the
protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 13
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence
within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his
own, and to return to his country.
Article 14
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other
countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions
genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts
contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 15
(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor
denied the right to change his nationality.
Article 16
(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to
race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to
found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to
marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent
of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society
and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Article 17
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in
association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and
religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or
belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others
and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in
teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression;
this right includes freedom to hold opinions without
interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and
association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of
his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in
his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority
of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and
genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal
suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free
voting procedures.
Article 22
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social
security and is entitled to realization, through national
effort and international co-operation and in accordance with
the organization and resources of each State, of the economic,
social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and
the free development of his personality.
Tony my old fellow,
if you _will_ keep on inserting 125,000 interwebthingies in comments, they will get delayed by wordpress’s spamfilter. Hope you have a nice rest-of-weekend! DD
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