Every parent a suspect

Privacy's about more than the paparazzi

The kind of protection the HRA offers is largely of use only to the rich. The law should tackle everyday intrusions head on

The Queen's demand that press photographers abide by their own professional code of conduct and not stake out Sandringham over the Christmas holiday carries with it an implied threat of legal action under the ad hoc privacy laws that are being formed in the courts.

Article 8 of the Human Rights Act (HRA) guarantees the right to privacy and family life, which has been used by a number of well-known people to give them a private space away from long-range cameras – today's Guardian editorial mentioned Fabio Capello and Princess Caroline of Monaco.

Although it seems right to give people what the editorial calls "a zone of privacy", this of course is privacy for the few who can afford to go to court, or threaten legal action. It does not seem to occur to our legislators that it is thoroughly inequitable, not to say illogical, to protect the head of state from the media, but not the public from a much greater intrusion by the state and its agencies.

Privacy is not an unqualified right, but it certainly must be held to mean the same for high and low, that is to say it is a quality that each one of us can aspire to and which is guaranteed by the law if we need. It is easy to argue that Capello and the royal family live under intolerable intrusion and that their experiences are nothing like the ordinary members of the public but to me the comparison seems invalid.

Celebrities and the public suffer different forms of intrusion. If we are to allow the construction of a body of law that protects the rich and famous, it is surely wrong not consider the huge expansion of CCTV systems, the use of automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras to track journeys and store the data, and the plans for accessing data from all communications. The total effect of these systems will in the long run be much more serious than anything Capello has suffered on holiday, however much he is owed our sympathy.

This is a very delicate area, but my feeling is that the privacy laws being made on the back of the HRA underline problems with the act because it guarantees nothing upfront but instead requires people to go to law to establish their rights. It would be much more effective to create a proper body of privacy legislation that specifies acts that illegally damage or compromise a person's privacy, and this would apply to the state, the press and the big corporations that gather and store personal details.

When I argue with lawyers about the effectiveness of the HRA they always say that its beauty lies in its vagueness, which allows for much more flexibility in protecting people's rights. I can see their point but surely law that only protects the rich from one type of intrusion is hardly working in the favour of the common good, or indeed universal rights.

Source: The Guardian

Rules are rules, the madness of Soviet Britain under . . .

You can’t sell a few eggs without filling in tons of paperwork and keeping countless state funded non jobs in a job:

An expert in microbiology in her 60s was subjected to an interrogation by a Government health official after she tried to sell some eggs at her local village shop.

Susannah Eykyn was visited by a ‘hen inspector’ who taught her how to clean and weigh an egg and designated her kitchen as a ‘packing station’.

The Defra official then donned a protective suit to inspect Mrs Eykyn’s chicken house, before leaving her with a large amount of paperwork to fill in.

Mrs Eykyn, a professor in clinical micro-biology, said she was left ‘bewildered’ at the end of the three-hour interrogation.

She said: ‘It does seem to be quite remarkable that for me to sell a few surplus eggs at the village stores I needed to be subjected to this utter nonsense.

Maybe she should barter them, or just tell the state to fuck the fuck off. But even when you follow the rules the New Labour state will fine you just to be petty, bloody minded and vindictive.

A retired headmaster had an £80 parking fine slapped on his car because his disabled parking permit had faded in the sun.

Harold Cadwallader, 87, did not realise that the record of his personal details had bleached on the card he leaves on the dashboard of his car.

He found the ticket on his windscreen when he left his Vauxhall Vectra in a disabled bay while he went to play his weekly game of bridge at a community centre.

This is what 12 years of Soviet style top down rule on the part of the vile Labour filth has given us, a snooper state where in order to do anything you need to follow the states rules.

Whilst all this happens Comrade Gordon allowed in millions of illegals jihadists and others from abroad and bribing them with benefits in order to re-elect Labour scum to the Commons.

Remember come polling day that this is a party that thinks you should have a license(and pay ever higher taxes) in order to buy a packet of cigarettes or to go for a beer.More

Disobey Call for Forced Vaccinations

A number of “stop the vax” efforts are taking place across America amid persistent warnings of a possible mandated “swine flu” mass vaccination of the populace, with alternative and mainstream news reports ranging from ominous scenarios of a deliberately created pandemic and planned large-scale crippling and killing of the population on the one extreme, to casual “the shots are available if you want them” reports on the other extreme.

Military exercises are even cited as possible dress rehearsals for gunpoint vaccinations and quarantines.

Yet, other sources suggest a lot more normalcy: one Midwestern daily newspaper noted that those catching the “swine flu” should just stay home at least 24 hours “after fever breaks,” implying that it’s unlikely this flu will kill anyone. Precautions for those who are still well are simply to wash your hands often with soap or sanitizer for “at least 20 seconds.”

In this age of hard-hitting news on the Internet that feeble mainstream sources will not report—but with the potential for falsehoods, exaggerations and deliberately planted urban legends also present on the Internet—it’s no easy task to say with certainty just how hard county, state, U.S. and global H1N1/swine flu shot advocates will push to vaccinate the greater population in the coming weeks. Yet, the bottom line is that more and more people will not take the shot.

Considering the known dangers of adjuvants and other highly suspect ingredients in modern vaccines, refusing the shot itself and avoiding any kind of nasal vaccine in spray form seem to be the only sensible course—no matter what plot is brewing. The best vaccination is no vaccination.

News reports appeared October 6 showing health care workers in Indiana, Illinois and Tennessee taking the nasal vaccine, FluMist, like willing sheep. Indeed, what is just as disturbing as government medical tyranny is the servility of Americans, particularly health care workers, to blindly accept the H1N1 nasal spray vaccine, amid troubling allegations that the spray—which is heavy with live viruses—could enable the viruses to incubate in the nasal tissue and then be released into the air by sneezing. This spreads the virus, possibly starting the very pandemic that thus far has not materialized, contrary to World Health Organization claims.

No matter what, Americans must refuse the H1N1 vaccine in needle and nasal form. But Americans must go beyond that and change every law in every state and at the national level that requires vaccinations.

Americans can force authorities at all levels and the profit-seeking drug companies that make these vaccinations to back down in a major way, and to “clean house” regarding any current or future attempts by megalomaniacs and mindless believers in all aspects of modern medicine to imperil the fabric of society with sordid medical schemes.

There are a number of good signs of much-needed resistance out there. New York healthcare workers held a morning rally at the state capitol in Albany September 29 “to protest the new regulations mandating that all healthcare workers with patient contact receive all CDC ‘recommended’ flu vaccines… including the just licensed, un-safety-tested ‘swine flu’ 2009 ‘H1N1-A.’

Members of [Ron Paul’s] Campaign for Liberty are taking an active role in this rally,” as noted in a news bulletin posted at HealthFreedomUSA.org.

So, in the short term we must greet “the shot” and “the spray” with bald-faced refusal and press on to expose the vast medical fraud that is our current system.

Remember, the clamor for national healthcare is about giving Big Medicine even more money and covering only conventional medical treatments.

Call and write your local and state health departments, local media and state representatives, contact the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control, and annoy your member of Congress and your U.S. senators about this H1N1 “swine flu” situation. Make it known that the vaccine is not needed and is unacceptable in any form under any pretense.

Source: American Free Press