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Martial Law: UK Police Chief Mulls Banning Protests - Despite police being behind provocations that enraged demonstrators, Metropolitan commissioner considers using Public Order Act to kill free speech Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

UK police chief Sir Paul Stephenson is considering whether to ask the British government to ban protest marches altogether in response to last week’s student riots, a move that would place Britain under a de facto state of martial law.It is one of the tactics we will look at and something we will keep under review, and if we think it is the right thing to do then we will do it, said the Metropolitan Police commissioner.NUS president Aaron Porter responded: Peaceful protest is an integral part of our heritage and it is the responsibility of the police to help facilitate that.Although the establishment media in Britain dutifully blamed the protesters for the violent scenes witnessed during the demonstrations, it later emerged that police had been behind a number of provocations that caused the running street battles, including pulling a disabled man out of a wheelchair and dragging him across the street, as well as repeatedly beating protesters on the head with batons.The use of kettling to confine protesters into a tight area has also been heavily criticized for only heightening rage amongst the demonstrators.

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Stephenson is considering whether to use the Public Order Act in an attempt to ban marches, despite acknowledging the fact that such a move could only exacerbate the situation. Other proposals are to use water cannons to disperse demonstrators, as well as snatch squads that would literally abduct so-called trouble-makers off the streets.Given the fact that police are being ordered to conduct themselves in ways that only further anger protesters, the overall agenda seems to be aimed at creating agitation that can subsequently be exploited to justify excessive force.Banning protest marches would extend the already existing no-protest zone which encompasses the area around the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, to the entire country.The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA) bans the right of protest (unless it is cleared by a commissioner 6 days in advance) within a 1km radius of the UK’s seat of government. The area covers the Houses of Parliament, Downing Street, most government ministries, St Thomas’s Hospital, part of the South Bank and Lambeth Palace.

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Police mull banning all UK protests
Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:52PM

The British police chief says he is weighing up an option to ask the Home Secretary to enforce a ban on any future protest gatherings altogether across the UK. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson referred to the level of violence in recent student protests against the rise in tuition fees, saying that he does not rule out banning all future student protests across the country, the daily Independent reported. Tens of thousands of student protesters from universities, colleges and schools have been marching across England in protests against the huge hikes in tuition fees, together with the scrapping of Educational Maintenance Allowance and proposed cuts in college funding. Police have arrested more than 180 people in London after four protests against the government's plan to increase the fees.The motion was voted on and approved last Thursday in defiance of the most violent protest scenes in and around Parliament Square where the clashes between police and protesters left 12 officers and more than 40 protesters injured.

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner said banning students from marching was a power he had not ruled out using.It is one of the tactics we will look at and something we will keep under review, and if we think it is the right thing to do then we will do it, said Sir Paul Stephenson.The head of the National Union of Students (NUS) dismissed the police chief's idea as in clear contrast to civil freedoms.
Peaceful protest is an integral part of our heritage and it is the responsibility of the police to help facilitate that, said the NUS president, Aaron Porter. Speaking about the suggestion that water cannons could be used to control crowds in the future, Sir Paul said that the force had ruled that option out three years ago but that officers were taking advice from colleagues in Northern Ireland about its efficacy in London.MOL/HE

Warning Issued Over Mass Fingerprinting Of School Children - Biometric information mandated from pupils without parents’ knowledge or consent Photograph: Wikimedia commons, for illustrative purposes only Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com
Wednesday, Dec 15th, 2010

The European Commission has warned that children in British schools are being mandated to submit their biometric information and being issued with unique pupil numbers with no oversight whatsoever.The Commission has asked the British government to justify the practice of taking children’s fingerprints, which has become commonplace in schools all over the country.The overriding concern, says the Commission, is that parents are not being allowed legal redress, and that the process violates European privacy laws.We should be obliged if you could provide us with additional information both regarding the processing of the biometric data of minors in schools, with particular reference to the proportionality and necessity in the light of the legitimate aims sought to be achieved, and the issue concerning the availability of judicial redress, says a letter from the Commission acquired by The London Telegraph.There are significant concerns that the compulsory fingerprinting of children for these purposes is against the EU data protection directive, said a commission official.In 2007, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that the British government had long been engaged in a back door program to collect the fingerprints of children in schools all over the country, in the majority of cases without the knowledge of parents.The data suggested that a further 4.9 million sets of prints would be taken after the vast majority of local education authorities sanctioned the practice.Then earlier this year it was revealed that one in three secondary schools in the UK is now forcing children to swipe their fingerprints just to register in class, get their lunch or take out library books.

A North London school was revealed to have literally frogmarched pupils to get their prints taken and was forced to apologise after irate parents complained that they had not been consulted on the matter at all.In one case, a man in Scotland was refused permission to bring the matter to court, and was informed by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office that schools do not require parental permission to fingerprint pupils.After the general election in May, the incoming Education Secretary Michael Grove pledged to ban schools from fingerprinting pupils unless they first sought and obtained explicit parental permission. However, the practice continues unobstructed.There are also no specific British laws governing the recording of other biometric information such as iris scans.It is often the case that EU interference in sovereign British law is seen as extremely unwelcome, yet in this case worried parents and teachers have expressed support:I believe the fingerprinting of children is a totally unnecessary infringement of civil liberties, he said. The legal situation must be looked at. This is being done surreptitiously without parents being told. said Hank Roberts, member of the executive of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers.Critics say it is part of a softening-up exercise to condition children to accept a creeping surveillance society. They also point to the danger of identity theft, if hackers manage to access school databases.

This is an abrogation of moral duty. Schools should be teaching children to look after their biometric information. Phil Booth, of the NO2ID campaign has said.They are going to grow up in a world where keeping it secure is enormously important, yet they are being taught that it is OK to hand it over for the most trivial of matters. It is a disgrace.