Friday, August 8, 2008

An amateur photographer was told she could not take snaps of an empty paddling pool because she might be a paedophile.
Betty Robinson was ordered to put away her camera by a council worker when she began snapping the empty outdoor pool.

A disabled boy's parents claim they were accused of child trafficking and detained under the Terrorism Act as they made a day trip to France.

This story could ave developed in so may ways, but to arrest a family under the Terrorism Act on grounds of possible child trafficing is completely perverse.

As an old friend of mine put, ever so well,

"Suspecting your neighbour, fragments ideas such as "society". It makes a
mockery of any notion of power wielded by the people. Fear the hoodies,
fear the kids, they think differently. Fear the immigrants, they speak
funny. Fear the brown people, they have a different religion. Fear your
neighbour, he is probabloy a paedophile. They're everywhere, didn't you
know?"

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