outlining
a uk ‘constitution’ [Real player/Windows media player]
Context: An opposition MP, Damion Green,
was arrested and held for 9 hours while his offices at parliament and
in his constituency, as well as his home, were searched and papers and
computers confiscated. The MP had received non-security related information
from a government whistleblower.
The socialist government is attempting to use claims
of confidentiality in their pursuit of arbitary government and secrecy.
The linked video has a succinct outline, by David
Starkey of the present problems with the UK ‘constitution’
and the current attack of civil liberties. [: Starts at 05:22m]
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#uk_constitution_051208 |
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new service to stop police wasting our time and taxes - the speed trap
con
“Drivers who spot hidden speed cameras will be able to alert
other vehicles within three seconds with the help of a dashboard gadget.
They will no longer need to flash their headlights to oncoming drivers
but will simply press a button on a satellite-positioning device.
“The device, which exploits a loophole in the law, transmits
the location of the speedtrap to a processing centre. The information
is relayed to other drivers who have installed the same equipment. A
car travelling 300 yards behind the driver who first spots the trap
would receive the warning in time to slow down before the camera.”
—
“Road safety groups said that the new device would undermine the
ability of police to enforce the limit because drivers would be able
to speed with very little risk of being caught. More than 50,000 drivers
in France already have the new device. In September they reported 27,000
traps.” [Quoted from timesonline.co.uk]
“In September 2006 they discovered that the proportion of injury
crashes involving any speeding vehicle nationally was only 5% - not
the 'one third' that they had previously claimed.”
The writer means that only about 5% of drivers were
exceeding the speed limit.
“In March we learned via Freedom of Information request that
the speed camera side effects research (announced in May 2005) had been
axed. It is inconceivable that the side effects DON'T cost more than
25 lives per year, meaning that speed cameras are making road safety
worse. But DfT doesn't want to hear this, which is the only possible
reason for axing the most important research. ”[Quoted from.safespeed.org.uk]
“The UK Department for Transport funded, then suppressed, a
study that shows a 55 percent increase in injury accidents when speed
cameras are used on highway work zones and a 31 percent increase when
used on freeways without construction projects. According to the Transport
Research Laboratory, the "non-works [personal injury accident]
rate is significantly higher for the sites with speed cameras than the
rate for sites without.” [Quoted from thenewspaper.com]
“Excessive speed includes both speeding in excess of the speed
limit and inappropriate speed for the conditions. However, data from
Avon & Somerset (the only force to supply such data) shows that
70% of "excessive speed" accidents takes place within the
speed limit. Therefore it's fair to assume that 30% involves exceeding
the speed limit. A quick calculation (30% of 12.5%) reveals that just
3.75% of accidents involves exceeding the speed limit.”
—
“Cuts in Traffic Police have been linked to an increase in road
deaths. In 10 years traffic police have decreased from 8,900 to 6,500
by 2002. This is possibly due to the reliance on "robotic policing"
with speed cameras.” [Quoted from speedcameras.org]
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#traffic_camera_detection_111108 |
democrat
achievements
An an interesting piece of writing. It amazes me that
‘blacks’ have been conned into backing a socialist fool and
backing ‘Democrat’ legislation that undermines
their own freedoms and advance.
Of course, ‘Democrats’ are against freedom,
as they have once more demonstrated by opposing the freeing of Iraq from
socialism.
- “It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and
passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
- “The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize
blacks.
- “The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil
rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860's, and continuing
with the civil rights laws of the 1950's and 1960's.
- “It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to
pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate
schools.
- Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive
Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact
that it was President Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively
end segregation in the military.
- “President Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington
by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black
Republican.
- “ President Kennedy, through his brother Attorney General Robert
Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion
of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.
- In 1968, after riots broke out in Tennessee where a teenager was
killed, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux
Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble,
but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later,
Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
- “Although affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats
into an unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to
counter the harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson
in 1912 kicked all of the blacks out of federal government jobs.
“It was Republicans who founded the historically Black Colleges
and Universities.”
And more....
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#democrat_achievements_081108 |
take-down notices to youtube censor presidential
political ads
John McCain wrote to YouTube complaining that they
were taking down almost immediately his ads posted there, YouTube having
received take-down notices. YouTube’s reason: unfounded, copyright
issuses over the inclusion of very short clips owned by various TV organisations.
“Republican presidential candidate John McCain is accusing YouTube
LLC of acting too quickly to comply with copyright infringement notices
by yanking his campaign videos.
“McCain's campaign sent a letter Monday to YouTube parent company
Google Inc., protesting YouTube's removal of unnamed videos from the
site after receiving take-down notices claiming copyright infringement
under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The McCain camp goes
on to suggest that YouTube set up a special process for reviewing the
legal merit of take-down requests for YouTube accounts associated with
candidates or their campaigns.
“The letter asserts that numerous times during the campaign,
YouTube removed videos that do not violate the DMCA, but instead are
examples of fair use of material because the videos included less than
10 seconds of footage from news broadcasts. The use of material from
news broadcasts is protected as fair use under the DMCA, McCain's letter
claims, because the videos are noncommercial uses of the material, the
material is factual and brief, and the videos don't affect the market
for the allegedly infringed material.” [Quoted from freerepublic.com]
YouTube’s response:
“YouTube responded to the McCain campaign's complaints last week,
saying it could not give the campaigns special treatment by conducting
a "full legal review" of political videos subject to takedown
notices before removing them.” [Quoted from news.cnet.com]
Now a coalition of several civil liberties organistions
have written to television networks to stop this activity contrary to
freedom of speech (First Amendment). The coalition has also written
to YouTube [.pdf].
“The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of
public interest groups called on four television networks today to stop
stifling vibrant political debate on the Internet with overreaching
copyright claims and proposed two measures to help YouTube protect online
political speech in the final days before America's presidential election.”
[Quoted from eff.org]
“On Monday [20 October 2008], groups including the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, and American
University's Center for Social Media, sent an open
letter (PDF) to CBS, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Fox,
and NBC, asking them to stop sending Digital Millenium Copyright Act
takedown notices to YouTube over short clips of news footage used in
election-related videos.” [Quoted from news.cnet.com]
We had to replace the ad here because it had been taken down from YouTube elsewhere.
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#take_down_221008 |
reversing
dreams of hoarding personal details
“Tens of thousands of criminal records could be deleted after
a landmark ruling that police were breaking rules on the holding of
personal details.
“Police reacted with dismay to a judgment by the Information
Tribunal, which could force them to review millions of records of minor
crimes.
“The ruling opens the way for all those who have been convicted
of a minor offence when young, and who have since remained out of trouble,
to apply for their record to be removed from the Police National Computer.”
And more...
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#personal_details_230708 |
‘new’
labour tries to propagandise youth before they can think - but it’s
‘new’ labour, so it isn’t working!
“Welcome to mylifemyid - the site where 16-25's can have their
say about identity issues in the UK. A few simple things to remember:
“* We want to know what you think, so contribute contribute
contribute. Don’t be shy.
* You must first register if you want to add your comments - it takes
only a couple of minutes.”
‘Moderated’, of course.
Government site, paid by the government, so advertising,
to try and charm uk’s youf.
But they’re not having any.
All comments are negative and well thought out,
except....
those of moderators, which are patronising and read like psychiatrists
trying to persuade a dangerous loon to have some ECT. See, for instance, Stopping
the ID card scheme.
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#youf_id_100708_290608 |
even
wedgewood benn comes out against ‘new’ labour and for david
davis!
“So when I heard that David Davis was standing in the Haltemprice
and Howden by-election, I decided to support him. I hope the Government's
move towards 42 days' detention without charge, recently passed in the
House of Commons, will be stopped as a result of his campaign.”
—
“ For many years the Labour government has boasted about the traditional
values and freedoms of this country; and yet, when its MPs voted to
amend the Terrorism Act and permit 42 days in prison without charge,
they effectively repealed Magna Carta.”
and calls the Clown a liar:
“The fact that the Labour party has decided not to contest the
seat indicates that it knows that it cannot win the argument on 42 days.”
related material
David
Davis’s formal campaign launch
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#end_of_magna_carta_290608 |
voters:
no, no, no - but euro-politicians: ignore that
“In normal democratic and accountable institutions, the democratic
will, voiced several times over, must eventually be heeded. In the EU,
as if to prove the point that its detractors continually make about
its arrogance and complacency, "No" is not an answer anyone
is prepared to accept.
“Instead of creating the sort of Europe that most of its 480
million citizens apparently want to see, the Euro-elites propose instead
to hold more summits and conferences to bring about the conclusion that
they insist on achieving. That is the "ever-closer union"
set out in the Treaty of Rome 50 years ago.
“While there are some countries in Europe for whom that is the
ultimate goal, ours is not one of them. So what should happen now? First,
the treaty is dead and no amount of Jesuitical sophistry can resuscitate
it. The Bill to ratify the treaty in Britain is currently before Parliament;
indeed, the Lords will vote on its final provisions next week. Gordon
Brown should withdraw the legislation and use the forthcoming Brussels
summit to persuade the EU to begin work on a new dispensation that would
return power to nations and peoples.
“EU leaders should ask themselves why the Irish, who have cause
to thank the EU and its taxpayers more than most, should support a "No"
campaign waged by what the government in Dublin regarded as a motley
coalition of extremists. In reality, the 45 per cent of the Irish electorate
that turned out have cast proxy ballots for millions more unconsulted
Europeans. The rest of us should feel ashamed and angry that it fell
to a small and peripheral nation to preserve our democracy.”
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#no_to_eu_constitution_150608 |
the transparent society, according to socialist
politicians
You can trust socialist government with your life,
if you have nothing to hide.
Italy’s
defeated socialist government posts all citizens’ wage details on
the web
“The incomes of every Italian citizen were published on the
web without any prior warning by the government, just days before it
was due to leave power.
“Claiming it was part of a crackdown on tax evasion, the finance
ministry yesterday put details of the declared taxable income of every
citizen on the country's tax website.
“The site proved hugely popular. Surprised Italians, delighted
at the chance to find out how much their neighbours, colleagues, and
high-profile celebrities were earning, bombarded the site within hours
of it going live.”
Meanwhile in socialist Britain....
How
much did your neighbour pay for their house?
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#socialist_transparency_030508 |
no pollution detection without government permission - new york city council
[lite]
“AT the suggestion of the federal Department of Homeland Security,
New York City Council members have drafted legislation requiring anyone
who has or uses a detector that measures chemical, biological or radioactive
agents to get a license from the Police Department.”[Quoted from nytimes.com]
“A gadget that fits into a person's pocket could help unravel
the environmental triggers for asthma attacks. Researchers created the
portable gas sensor to study the relationship between asthma symptoms
and the air a sufferer breathes.” [Quoted from newscientist.com]
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#pollution_detection_310108 |
at
last - call it what it is! the world’s major economy moves one step
closer to a citizen’s wage
“Under the plan, as many as 117 million people would get rebate
checks. Individual income tax filers would receive up to $600, working
couples would get up to $1,200, and those with children would get an
additional $300 per child.”
related material
citizen’s
wage
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#us_citizens_wage_240108 |
don’t confuse me with the facts - steyn
on the politically correct attack on free speech
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1 page
2 page
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“[...] But once the drawings became an international news story
it seems absurd to publish reports on the controversy without also showing
what all the fuss is about. CNN did show the cartoons, but with the
Prophet's face all blurry and pixilated - the first time, I believe,
that this familiar technique of investigative TV journalism has been
applied not to a human being but to a, er, drawing, as if the cartoon
Muhammad had entered the witness protection program.”
—
“ Messages that make use of allegedly true stories, news reports,
pictures and references to apparently reputable sources in an attempt
to lend an air of objectivity and truthfulness to the extremely negative
characterization of the targeted group have been found to be likely
to expose members of the targeted group to hatred and contempt.”
related material
muslim organisation
calls for boycott of denmark - look upon the horrid reasons
cartoon rage
and cringing - a round-up
Mark Steyn Mark
Steyn 2
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#free_speech_attacked_210108 |
seeing
the future - government wants to control your thermostats via radio
And where does government control end and government
help start?
“Pacific Gas and Electric, the major utility in Northern California,
already has a pilot program in Stockton that allows customers to choose
to have their air-conditioning systems attached to a radio-controlled
device to reduce use during periods when electricity rates are at their
peak.
“But the idea that a government would mandate use of these devices
and reserve the power to override a building owner’s wishes galls
some people.”
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#government_heat_control_130108 |
uk
blogger threatened with arrest for attacking islamic extremism
“[Lionheart] has been a warrior on the war on the jihad in the
UK and exposed the drug running that funded Islamic jihad in Britain
and posted on the tsunami of sharia enveloping his beloved country.
The Brits have submitted to Islam and they mean to shut down anyone
who speaks for freedom, justice and liberty. Silencing the daring truth
tellers"."Hate speech" legislation is the club the political
elites will wield to club us into submission.”
—
“I am currently out of the Country and on my return home to England
I am going to be arrested by British detectives on suspicion of Stirring
up Racial Hatred by displaying written material” contrary to sections
18(1) and 27(3) of the Public Order Act 1986.”
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/civil-liberties2008.php#blogged_silenced_080108 |
