Police searching house when they arrest you - is this new?

[snadge]

Have you done a course on being stupid ...

from your answer there I can see, once again that you didn't read the articles, one on a women arrested using said act for walking on a cycle path and another highlighting how few court cases come from hundreds of arrests.


For your information I have done a course in being stupid, it helps me in a world full of idiots to function normally when I have to deal with idiots, what's your excuse?

 

[snadge]

And here we have the senior counter terrorism police officer echoing our fears.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6171775.stm

 

[TAE]

I was about to post that.

In a press statement, Toby Harris, MPA member with special responsibilities for counter-terrorism, said: "The very clear message from Londoners through the MPA counter-terrorism hearings has been that there is real unease over the disproportionate and inconsistent use of this power."

 

[subversplat]

"NFA, officer."

 

[detective-boy]

Read your own post #104 before calling someone stupid for mentioning arrests under anti-terror legislation.

Jesus fucking Christ! What the fuck is it with you people?

I'm NOT saying he's fucking stupid for mentioning dodgy arrests under the Terrorism Act. I've even fucking posted that there are some and I share some of the concerns about it's use..

The "stupid" aspect was using arrests under the Terrorism Act as evidence of the general misuse of premises search powers which was what was being discussed.

The linkage was irrelevant. That linkage was what was stupid.

If I was trying to argue that the shy was blue and you countered by saying that it was green because grass was green then that is the same situation. It would be irrelevant and it would be stupid to use the fact of one as evidence for the other, NOT simply to state that grass was green.

Get it?

 

[TAE]

You are wriggling.



This thread is as much about anti-terror searches as any other searches. People having their homes searched for no good reason.

You yourself were refering to anti-terror searches in post #104:

If there were lots of examples such as the one linked to, do you not think we would be hearing about them? It appears it led to the station being closed and evacuated. Do you think that is happening regularly? Do you really think that would have been done just on the basis of someone looking a bit funny at a copper or something?

So there was a general question of how often the police actually use their powers against people for no good reason.

 

[detective-boy]

You are wriggling.

Bollocks.

Go read the particular line of debate (which started with Post #108). We were talking about searches generally until snadge butted in with his stupid attempt to evidence a question (which was actually addressed to you anyway).

 

[TAE]

LOL.

108 is a reply to 104.