| The Met keeping terrorist sympathisers off our streets 15:45 - Aug 9 with 510 views | bluelagos |
[Post edited 9 Aug 15:45]
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| The Met keeping terrorist sympathisers off our streets on 15:58 - Aug 9 with 429 views | bradforblues |
The country has gone mad |  |
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| The Met keeping terrorist sympathisers off our streets on 16:10 - Aug 9 with 389 views | DJR |
Was he holding up a copy of a Private Eye cartoon?
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| The Met keeping terrorist sympathisers off our streets on 16:19 - Aug 9 with 342 views | DJR |
Interestingly, I was once stopped and searched at Charing Cross under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Section 44 allowed police to stop and search anyone in a designated area without the need for reasonable suspicion.
Although section 44 could only be used when specifically authorised by the home secretary, in practice, a series of rolling authorisations were issued across London, with the effect that the ‘suspicionless’ s44 stop and search powers were available to the Metropolitan Police at any time for most of the decade after the act came into force in 2001.
In 2003, officers stopped and searched two people – Kevin Gillan and Pennie Quinton, a journalist – on their way to a demonstration against an arms fair held in central London, detaining them for 30 minutes. This sparked a legal challenge on the grounds that the home secretary had acted ultra vires in authorising s44 stops on a continuous basis across London, and that these authorisations violated parts of the European Convention on Human Rights, which had been enshrined in domestic law in 1998 through the Human Rights Act.
In 2010, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that s44 infringed Article 8 – the right to respect for private life – and that the stop and search powers of s44 were not adequately circumscribed, nor did they have sufficient legal safeguards against their abuse.
Following the judgment in Gillan and Quinton v the United Kingdom, Theresa May suspended s44 in July 2010. In 2011, an amended version of the s44 ‘suspicionless’ stop and search power was introduced – s47A – and a new code of practice was issued. Since then, there have only been four authorisations of this power, all following the Parsons Green tube station attack in 2017. [Post edited 9 Aug 16:20]
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| The Met keeping terrorist sympathisers off our streets on 16:46 - Aug 9 with 240 views | noggin |
Shame on the government and shame on the Metropolitan Police. |  |
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| The Met keeping terrorist sympathisers off our streets on 17:25 - Aug 9 with 133 views | DJR |
Meanwhile in Gaza. If hunger, illness or the IDF don't get you......
"A 14-year-old Palestinian boy was killed and several people were injured Saturday when an aid box dropped by air fell on them in central Gaza, marking the fourth such fatal accident in recent days, medical sources said, Anadolu reports.
The sources told Anadolu that Muhannad Eid died after being struck in the head by a box in the Al-Nuwairi Hill area, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp. He was taken to Al-Awda Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The exact number of injured was not immediately available.
Saturday’s tragedy follows three similar incidents since multiple countries began parachuting aid into Gaza on July 16, amid an Israeli blockade that has pushed the enclave into famine." [Post edited 9 Aug 17:26]
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