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42 days and hand over your flash card to the police

brummie | 03.07.2008 22:26 | Repression | Social Struggles | Birmingham | London

new anti terror legislation makes information free to police without court orders, warrants, arrest or suspicion

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 http://photorights.org/blog/42-days-and-hand-over-your-flash-card

Please read this piece, it's important.

It concerns The 2008 Terrorism Prevention Bill, currently headed toward the Lords.

It does *NOT* take any notice of PACE special procedure material,

This Bill will allow any policeman performing a S44 search to demand your flash cards and remove them to the police station for up to 96hrs. You cannot say no, you commit an imprisonable offence if you obstruct the seizure.

There is no requirement for you or anyone else to have committed any offence, it's just one huge fishing trip to turn us all into spies for the police.

This is absolutely disgraceful."

The above is quoted and adjusted from another list and republished to spread the word.

Please email your local mps, papers, bbc, lord, euro mp and anyone to whom you think relevant.

brummie

Additions

Correction...

04.07.2008 15:57

The article has now re-appeared and can be viewed at the original link.

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The source article is wrong

04.07.2008 09:21

If you follow the link in the original article, you get a message saying it has been withdrawn as it contained serious errors based on a misreading of the act and that the powers only apply to s43 (which requires reasonable suspicion of terrorism) and not s44 (which requires no suspicion).

I haven't gone and read the bill myself to check this out, just passing on what the source for this article is now saying.

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the amended article is still wrong

06.07.2008 17:23

for the same reasons. The author is right that the police could misuse Section 43 to obstruct journalists, but is completely wrong to suggest that this would be lawful.

It would be lawful for a journalist to resist such a search by force if necessary.

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