The Government announced during the past week the following piece of disturbing news. As press releases go, few would spot the sinister nature of yet another government IT programme, but read carefully, because it begs more questions, many more questions than a simple press release should.

A contract for the Serious Organised
Crime Agency has nearly doubled in potential value, due to its
extension to other policing bodies

Soca had expected to spend between £300m
and £500m on its integrated information management and communications
infrastructure, known as the 2010 Programme, according to a pre-tender
notice it published in the
Official Journal of the European Union in December.

But if the deal is extended it could be worth up to £800m, according to a tender notice published on 28 January 2009.

The other organisations which may use the
infrastructure are the Home Office, the UK Border Agency, the Identity
and Passport Service, the Criminal Records Bureau, the National Police
Improvement Agency, UK police authorities and their “statutory
successors and organisations”.

Soca intends to award the contract next year and to complete the development of its new service 12 months later.

The first question is: Why is Soca taking the lead in the 2010 programme?

We have written before about Soca, (The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) is an Executive
Non-Departmental Public Body sponsored by, but operationally
independent from, the Home Office), which unlike the police do not have a Royal Charter, a virtually private police force set up by the Home Office that reports directly to the minister, not the state. Political Police.
Note: Serving Police Officers that wish to join Soca have to resign and rescind their oath to the Queen before joining.

The Chair of SOCA, is appointed by the Home Secretary, is responsible for SOCA’s overall approach and for its relationship with Ministers. One of the approaches of this 'Law Enforcement' agency is political suppression, as outlined in the Serious and Organised Crime Act, and is responsible for suppressing our right to protest in any areas arbitarily designated by the Home Secretary.

An organisation, headed by politically motivated and aligned personnel
that can be used outside of the Judicial system (as described by Lord Justice Sedley) at both a national and
local level, essential and historically proven in all dictatorial
regimes. The parallels in the setting up of this agency with dictatorial enforcement organisations such as the Stazi and the Gestapo can be viewed here. (Other articles on SOCA can be found on this site, use the search facility on the right toolbar).

With that political and suppressive role in mind, I would remind you again of the 2010 programme overall, and its threat to free and individual life in the UK. Something that I wrote about here in Sept 07.

Now moving back up to the Press release.
Look at the other organisations that will be linking to this new 'Network' being built by Soca.

1. The Home Office.

2. The UK Border Agency (a Shadow Agency the Home Office??. The UK Border Agency is responsible for securing the United Kingdom borders and controlling migration (That means In and Out, Immigration is an add on)).

The Agency brings together the work previously carried out by the
Border and Immigration Agency, Customs detection work at the border
from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and UK Visa Services from
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). (have these departments been reduced by the same numbers?)

They are a
global organisation with 25,000 staff, including more than 9,000
warranted officers, operating in local communities, at our borders and
across 135 countries worldwide. (surely our borders stop at…erm, our borders).

3. The Identity and Passport Service (Executive Agency sponsored by, but operationally
independent from, the Home Office. ID Cards have been described by the minister responsible as Internal Passports).

4. Criminal Records Bureau. (The Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) is run as an Executive Agency of the Home Office by Civil Servants, and delivers the service through a number of strategic partnerships with Capita. Very similar in nature to the CRO (Criminal Records Office) now owned and operated by the ACPO, private Ltd company).

5. National Police Improvement Agency. (The NPIA is a policing organisation acting as a central resource to the police service, working for ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers), APA (Association of Police Authorities, another Ltd company) and the Home Office, headed by an ex Reuters journalist, which operates many of the databases, some of which still have no legal basis, NDNAD, National Fingerprint, Sex offenders, ANPR, PNC, Interpol link, e-Borders to name but a few). The NPIA does not operate as an independent body.

6. UK Police Authorities. The really worrying wording here is and their “statutory successors and organisations”. At what point are the Government to abolish sworn police officers and replace them with Non-Departmental bodies, such as PCSO's and the like already under the control of the privately owned and politically motivated ACPO.

If anyone is still in any doubt of the creation of a police state, loyal to the Party which has bought and paid for that loyalty, perhaps the press release above will change your mind.

They are preparing us to being pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed and numbered, the linking of these organisations should indicate to all that they are preparing not to keep people out, but to keep us in (again, something that all dictatorial regimes tend to do, how long before this power is extended to other defaults), and in a very controlled state.

Yes,
the French go on strike at the drop of a hat. Whether I agree with them
or not is irrelevant, bloody hell do I respect the French for getting
up off their arses and pointing out that they are pissed off, and will
not put up with it.

And they've kicked off in Paris tonight.

Meanwhile the Lyonnais mourn the loss of civil liberties.

How
long until we see scenes like this on the streets of the UK, could
anyone care less, or are we all too concerned about the recent spat
between two plastic titted, bottle orange 'celebrities'?

Yes,
the French go on strike at the drop of a hat. Whether I agree with them
or not is irrelevant, bloody hell do I respect the French for getting
up off their arses and pointing out that they are pissed off, and will
not put up with it.

And they've kicked off in Paris tonight.

Meanwhile the Lyonnais mourn the loss of civil liberties.

How
long until we see scenes like this on the streets of the UK, could
anyone care less, or are we all too concerned about the recent spat
between two plastic titted, bottle orange 'celebrities'?

Nicolas Sarkozy this week faces the first mass-protests over his handling of the financial crisis and reforms as unions prepare to paralyse France in a general strike, uniting private and public sector workers from schools, hospitals national TV
and radio to postal services, bank clerks and supermarket employees.
Even helicopter pilots and staff from the company that operates the
French stock exchange are taking part.

High school pupils, university
lecturers, lawyers and magistrates will also protest a raft of
Sarkozy's reforms and planned job cuts. Despite the predicted chaos,
one poll found that 70% of French people either support or sympathise
with the strikes.

“Black Thursday” is the first general strike since the French
president's election in 2007. All the leading unions have joined forces
to protest that the government's stimulus plans should focus less on
companies and more on workers' job-protection and purchasing power, as unemployment in France is forecast to reach 10% in 2010. There is a more detailed but bias report by the Guardian's Paris correspondent here.

The strikes follow months of tension after high school students delayed
an education reform with sit-ins, strikes and demonstrations. Earlier
this month a radical union led a strike that shut down Paris's second
biggest railway station, leaving hundreds of thousands of commuters
stranded. In the past two weeks, Sarkozy has criss-crossed the country
giving more than 17 new year speeches, but protesters have been kept in
check by riot police.

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It is clear that the wearied people of France are not going to sit back and silently take being pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed and numbered like the British, but are opting for the Icelandic solution, direct action.

The LSE economist Robert Wade – addressing a protest meeting in Reykjavik’s
cinema – recently warned that the world was approaching a new tipping point.
Starting from March-May 2009, we can expect large-scale civil unrest, he
said. “It will be caused by the rise of general awareness throughout
Europe, America and Asia that hundreds of millions of people in rich and
poor countries are experiencing rapidly falling consumption standards; that
the crisis is getting worse not better; and that it has escaped the control
of public authorities, national and international.”

There are riots and direct action taking place right now all across Europe, from Athens to Vilnius, but it appears only in the UK are the population dulled into stupefying silence by a daily diet of fluoridated water, X-Factor, Dead Enders, Jeremy Kyle and BBC news propaganda.

But, there is another way…..

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one which is free from Government interference, and to disentangle
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Nicolas Sarkozy this week faces the first mass-protests over his handling of the financial crisis and reforms as unions prepare to paralyse France in a general strike, uniting private and public sector workers from schools, hospitals national TV
and radio to postal services, bank clerks and supermarket employees.
Even helicopter pilots and staff from the company that operates the
French stock exchange are taking part.

High school pupils, university
lecturers, lawyers and magistrates will also protest a raft of
Sarkozy's reforms and planned job cuts. Despite the predicted chaos,
one poll found that 70% of French people either support or sympathise
with the strikes.

“Black Thursday” is the first general strike since the French
president's election in 2007. All the leading unions have joined forces
to protest that the government's stimulus plans should focus less on
companies and more on workers' job-protection and purchasing power, as unemployment in France is forecast to reach 10% in 2010. There is a more detailed but bias report by the Guardian's Paris correspondent here.

The strikes follow months of tension after high school students delayed
an education reform with sit-ins, strikes and demonstrations. Earlier
this month a radical union led a strike that shut down Paris's second
biggest railway station, leaving hundreds of thousands of commuters
stranded. In the past two weeks, Sarkozy has criss-crossed the country
giving more than 17 new year speeches, but protesters have been kept in
check by riot police.

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It is clear that the wearied people of France are not going to sit back and silently take being pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed and numbered like the British, but are opting for the Icelandic solution, direct action.

The LSE economist Robert Wade – addressing a protest meeting in Reykjavik’s
cinema – recently warned that the world was approaching a new tipping point.
Starting from March-May 2009, we can expect large-scale civil unrest, he
said. “It will be caused by the rise of general awareness throughout
Europe, America and Asia that hundreds of millions of people in rich and
poor countries are experiencing rapidly falling consumption standards; that
the crisis is getting worse not better; and that it has escaped the control
of public authorities, national and international.”

There are riots and direct action taking place right now all across Europe, from Athens to Vilnius, but it appears only in the UK are the population dulled into stupefying silence by a daily diet of fluoridated water, X-Factor, Dead Enders, Jeremy Kyle and BBC news propaganda.

But, there is another way…..

The Libertarian Party UK is committed to making the life of the individual
one which is free from Government interference, and to disentangle
Corporate interests with government legislation.

If you
would like to know more about the Libertarian Party and its objectives,
read our manifesto or are just curious, visit our website by clicking
on the logo below. You can join the Libertarian Party by clicking the
Join Now link in the sidebar.

The Only home of Libertarian policy in the UK

Your Life, Your Country, Your Choice.