Friday, 11 April, 2008
- 11 Apr 08, 06:03 PM
Jersey
A former Jersey who admitted sexual assaults on girls has been jailed for two years. This comes at a time when Jersey has been rocked by other allegations of child abuse and incompetence by the authorities. Robin Denselow is in Jersey for us tonight with the latest.
Spying
Poole Borough Council in Dorset has admitted using anti-terror laws to carry out they suspected of lying about living in a school catchment area. The civil rights group Liberty calls the spying disproportionate and intrusive. We hope to be bringing together the director of Liberty in debate with the head of the Local Government Association.
DNA
A panel of experts has given its backing to scientific techniques in which evidence is extracted from tiny amounts of DNA. The panel was asked by the government to review the controversial technique, after it was criticised by the judge at the Omagh bombing trial. Our Science Editor, Susan Watts, who investigated the original doubts about the procedure assesses the implications of today's decision.
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But what is Jim Knight's decision ?
Why is he being allowed to equivocate ?
Why aren't new guidelines being issued to prevent this happening again ?
When will the law be changed to STOP this ill-thought out and draconian legislation be applied to areas it should have absolutely no jurisdiction over ??
Better yet, get David Blunkett on the show to justify how being concerned at this legislation being used for SPYING on innocent parents is being a member of his maligned 'liberati'.
What a complete buffoon that hideously illiberal Home Secretary was. Does Jacqui Smith have the courage to put her money where her mouth is and back up this nonsense ?
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But what is Jim Knight's decision ?
Why is he being allowed to equivocate ?
Why aren't new guidelines being issued to prevent this happening again ?
When will the law be changed to STOP this ill-thought out and draconian legislation being applied to areas it should have absolutely no jurisdiction over ??
Better yet, get David Blunkett on the show to justify how being concerned at this legislation being used for SPYING on innocent parents is being a member of his maligned 'liberati'.
What a complete buffoon that hideously illiberal Home Secretary was. Does Jacqui Smith have the courage to put her money where her mouth is and back up this nonsense ?
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It is about time that the council are held accountable for their ultra vires behaviour and breach of the subjects' human rights. It is not legally or morally right for anti-terrorist provisions to be applied to a school selection process. This is just another example of the labour government using a hammer to crack a nut!
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It may come as no surprise that the camera explosion and terrorists law and eventually all DNA identity cards will mean that any Governmnet has the capacity to do whatever it wants to the public. This is nothing new.
Technology has moved on from the crude telephone tap which I experienced some 30 years ago when a colleague of mine was a member of the Communist party. (I was a Tory-then!!-perhaps Labour was tapping me?)
1984 is with us, 24 years late!
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A party that was once a bastion of free speech, a stalwart against repression is now a cowering inward looking obsessive collection of automatons paranoid about security and spying on people. What a travesty that every principle of faith the Labour party once had has now been surrendered to the Thatcherite thugs that now control every facet of progressive thought.
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It is not surprising that a cop has been sentenced for two years.It is the guy who has admitted his crime, but there are a lot of such crimes that go unnoticed by the authorities.Child abuse and molestation is the common incidents in jersey
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I read in today's Sunday Times that the Government now wants to spy on the motorists another revenue raising exercise on the false premiss of Global warming. How the public have been conned.
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