Which values don′t you share?
Itsme | 22.03.2009 13:53 | Repression
The Home Office's new counter-terrorism document called 'Contest Two' - to be published on Tuesday - will increase the focus on challenging individuals and groups who undermine the UK's "shared values" - even if they are not actually breaking any law.
It is suggested that the government will punish people who do not share British values by sidelining them and by denying them public funds and challenge nonviolent extremist groups, even though they are not lawbreakers.
So, if you exhibit signs of extremism, by failing to subscribe to certain 'shared values', you could be in trouble even if you are not breaking any laws. Although ′Contest Two is aimed principally at Muslims, there can be little doubt that the police will seize on this new opportunity to further harass peaceful demonstrators, regardless of their faith or lack of it.
The government is training 60,000 people to assist 3,000 anti-terrorist police to ″...know what to watch for as people go about their daily business in crowded places such as stations, airports, shopping centres and sports grounds." Surveillance vigilantes?
So, if you exhibit signs of extremism, by failing to subscribe to certain 'shared values', you could be in trouble even if you are not breaking any laws. Although ′Contest Two is aimed principally at Muslims, there can be little doubt that the police will seize on this new opportunity to further harass peaceful demonstrators, regardless of their faith or lack of it.
The government is training 60,000 people to assist 3,000 anti-terrorist police to ″...know what to watch for as people go about their daily business in crowded places such as stations, airports, shopping centres and sports grounds." Surveillance vigilantes?
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