Aug
03

Why were Levy, Turner and Evans not DNA tested

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From the current edition of Private Eye:

“Despite
complaints about “Gestapo-like” tactics pursued by police investigating
the cash-for-honours affair, it seems that the trio arrested by
Inspector Knacker -Lord Levy, Ruth Turner and Sir Christopher Evans – may have been treated more favourably than most suspected villains.

For the past three years police have routinely taken DNA samples from people they arrest and added them to the national database, even if they are completely innocent. When the Eye
phoned Scotland Yard to confirm that the cash-for-honours trio had
indeed been treated like most other suspects, a spokeswoman said:
“Taking DNA does not happen in every case.”

We also asked Lord Levy's
office, Tony's Blair [sic] new office (where Ms Turner now works) and
Sir Christopher's office at his Merlin Biosciences company. Reply came
there none.”

As you may remember, Tony Blair and the
then Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt were also questioned, but I would
bet that the same policy exception will have been extended to them too.

In the New World Order, it appears that only the great unwashed are subjected to the humiliating rights busting DNA testing.

HatTip Robin Wilton

This follows on from the ACPO statement yesterday, where they indicated that they were against further extending the reasons for DNA testing, but when we read the list of Chief Police officers that indicate that they DO want it extended, we think that the ACPO is throwing us a red herring.

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03

Government sneaks new laws during recess

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The old
NuLabour trick of “burying the bad news” in a flurry of announcements
which overwhelm the limited analytical resources of the mainstream
media and the opposition political parties, is a practice which seems
to be continuing under the supposedly “more accountable” style of
government under the micro-meddling Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

There are no legitimate reasons for these Statutory Instruments,
which cover several areas of interest to Spy Blog, to have all been
published together just before the unusually long Parliamentary summer recess.

This Secondary Legislation, over which there has been little or no
public debate, represents another Great Leap Forward into into a
Surveillance Police Nanny State:

Snooping
on and Retention of Communications Traffic Data i.e. mobile phone
location data, itemised telephone bills, subscriber details etc., even
if you are innocent of any crime:

Government access to encryption keys or de-crypted data:

The sneaking in of ID Cards and National Identity Register database sharing
Secondary Legislation has started, under the guise of “Passports”.
Commercial credit reference agencies look set to make a mint of money
out of the scheme:

More anti-terrorism Secondary Legislation – how much more complicated and incompressible can it get ?

This bans a couple of obscure groups i.e.”Jammat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh” and “Tehrik Nefaz-e Shari'at Muhammadi.”

However, there is Still No Ban on the Taliban in
Afghanistan and Pakistan despite all the civilian and British military
casulaties they are causing. Banning the Taliban would allow for the
arrest of the fanatical idiots who raise money and go to Pakistan to
join up with the Taliban to fight against British troops.

Neither is there a ban on any Chechen terrorist groups.

At least this regulation is within the spirit of what Secondary Legislation should be i.e. a simple addition to a list.

The Home Office is not the only “Ministry of Injustice”:

This SI is as long and as complicated as many entire Acts of
Parliament. So much for Gordon Brown's promises to reduce the burden of
bureaucratic red tape on businesses and on individuals – yet another
broken promise.

The controversial Children Database on all children, parents or guardians, instead of just concentrating on those deemed to be “at risk”, is now re-branded as “ContactPoint“:

We are not any safer as a result of these Statutory Instruments, the
burden of bureaucratic red tape has been increased, and some more of
our precious freedoms and liberties have been lost, for no measurable
benefit to the majority of law abiding innocent people:

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