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March of the dustbin Stasi: Half of councils use anti-terror laws to watch people putting rubbish out on the wrong day
Sophie Borland and James Slack
UK Daily Mail
Saturday, Nov 1, 2008
More than half of town halls admit using anti-terror laws to spy on families suspected of putting their rubbish out on the wrong day.
Their tactics include putting secret cameras in tin cans, on lamp posts and even in the homes of ‘friendly’ residents.
The local authorities admitted that one of their main aims was to catch householders who put their bins out early.
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The shocking way in which the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act – an anti-terror law – is being used was revealed through freedom of information requests made by the Daily Mail.
MPs and civil liberties groups last night accused councils of using the draconian powers for trivial reasons.
Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty said: ‘Snooping appears to have become the favourite pastime in town halls up and down the land.
‘Common sense has gone out of the window and instead of putting out more bins, councils spy on householders as if they were terrorists.’
Tory communities spokesman Eric Pickles said: ‘Under Labour, the rights and liberties of law-abiding citizens are being eroded through plans for ID cards, sinister microchip spies in bins and abuse of anti-terror laws by councils.
‘Taxpayers’ money is being wasted on bankrolling an army of municipal bureaucrats who have watched too many episodes of Spooks.’
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14 Responses to “March of the dustbin Stasi: Half of councils use anti-terror laws to watch people putting rubbish out on the wrong day”
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November 1st, 2008 at 9:09 am
News flash: These “councils” are the same people who will not only spy on you for crap like this but these are the very people who will decided that you need to be rounded up to be shot or put in prison camps. Get the hell out of the UK if you can. It’s worse than the states, seriously.
November 1st, 2008 at 2:56 pm
the households need to put the town halls out on the curb, only garbage can make these type of big bro regs !!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-t7PmonBEA
goldieshouse.piczo.com
November 1st, 2008 at 8:13 pm
People should dump their rubbish on the town hall steps – that’ll learn ‘em
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:15 am
Can I come and live in Austin? :p
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:44 am
Yo Jan…No way, worse than Amerikkka? How is that possible? Surely the citizens haven’t been turned into a bunch of morons through fluoride and television? OH YEAH, y’all been inbreeding for centuries, that’s right! (JUST KIDDING…LOVE ALL Y’ALL!)
But seriously, I don’t know how it is possible for it to be worse there…
WAGON! WAGON!
DEAD BODIES DRAGGIN’!
MCL
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 am
They should stuff the Royal Family and the Rothschilds in the dust bin.
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:46 am
People will eventually start breaking cameras and all these snooping devices…
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:48 am
just like swarzenaegger in the running man
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:26 am
Have you ever noticed that all the serial killer/mass murderers (swarzenaegger) in the US movies turn out to be Republicans…gee, I wonder why that is?
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Oh my GOD!! This is every free loving persons worst nightmare. A gang of nosey, busy body taddle tails who have nothing better to do than watch other people put out their trash. These people love control and a sense of power even if it’s the trash police. Go get a puppy or dog if you wan’t to boss and control. Next they will be following you in the store or watching you in the bathroom to make sure you are doing everything according to their standards. The gossip gang is very dangerous and a threat to all of our freedom’s. It’s a big world out there. You pathetic souls need to get a life and let people throw their trash away without your hyper critical eyes staring at them.
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Time for the World REVOLUTION !!!
Spying on someone puting out the trash
What has it come to ??
We need to give some of these people a good nightime beating
It seems all they understand is power
So lets give them some power !!!
Power to the People
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
time for a few town halls to get rubbish dumped outiside there front doors me thinks
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 pm
If I found a camera watching me take out the trash I’d take a big shit on the lens and then smash it beyond repair. It’s time to take drastic action people.