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Police Terror Stops Occur Every Three Minutes In London
Section 44 of the Terrorism Act has a 0.035% success rate
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
London Police stop and search a member of the public every three minutes under anti-terrorism laws, new figures have revealed.
Potential terrorists clearly lurk around every corner as statistics released to the BBC show that the Metropolitan Police used section 44 of the Terrorism Act more than 170,000 times in 2008 to stop people in the capital.
The figures represent a more than 140% increase on 2007 numbers.
Of all the stops last year, only 65 led to arrests for terror offences, a success rate of just 0.035%, the article notes.
Furthermore, when you take into account how many of those arrests have translated into convictions, according to the Home Office, you come up with a round figure of 0.0%.
“The new Metropolitan Police commissioner should look at London again from the viewpoint of section 44,” commented Lord Carlile, the Government’s independent reviewer of terrorism laws.
“It catches no or almost no terrorism material, it has never caught a terrorist and therefore it should be used conservatively.”
The new figures follow on from recent revelations that the use of the ’stop and search’ power has increased exponentially by over ten times in less than ten years.
In addition, Ministry of Justice statistics, published last summer, revealed that from 2006-2007 police used their anti-terror powers to stop (but not search) nearly two million members of the public and demand they account for their behavior or actions, a figure that translates to around 3.5% of the entire British population.
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Stop and search powers, which were initially conceived only to be used in emergency situations, have proved controversial since their introduction in section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The government has consistently backed the powers as an important tool in the fight against terrorism.
Since then, the powers, while not leading directly to the prevention of any terrorism, have been most notably used against: Kevin Gillan and Pennie Quinton for protesting outside Europe’s biggest arms fair in London; the 82-year-old Walter Wolfgang for heckling Jack Straw at the Labour Conference; Sally Cameron for walking on a cycle-path in Dundee; the 80-year-old John Catt for being caught on CCTV passing a demonstration in Brighton; the 11-year-old Isabelle Ellis-Cockcroft for accompanying her parents to an anti-nuclear protest; and a cricketer on his way to a match over his possession of a bat.
More recently, Scotland Yard admitted that its officers have been photographing children who are stopped and searched, even after they have been found to be innocent, and keeping the pictures on a database for “intelligence-gathering purposes”.
In the past we have reported on instances where police have admitted stop and search records are permanently retained.
The Home Office guide to stop and search states that “if they don’t find anything, your details will be recorded for monitoring purposes, and you’ll be allowed to go.”
The government has continued to push for greater stop and search powers for police.
Section 44 of the Terrorism Act bestows exceptional powers on the police to stop and search at random, once a particular geographical area has been designated by a chief officer as one that might be targeted by terrorists and authorised as such by the Home Secretary. The government has since extended this power to stop and search WITHOUT REASONABLE SUSPICION to include “troubled areas”.
As of February 17 2009, Section 76 of the Counter Terrorism Act also prohibits photographing police and permits the arrest of anyone found “eliciting, publishing or communicating information” relating to members of the armed forces, intelligence services and police officers, which is “likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism”.
Essentially, under anti-terror laws, anyone caught photographing police could face a fine or a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
As we have recently reported, this section of the act is being used primarily to target journalists covering protests, who say they are being targeted by police surveillance officers more so than the actual protesters. The law has also been used against tourists snapping pictures of landmarks and members of the public documenting police misconduct.
A recent report by the Joint Select Committee on Human Rights confirmed that journalists and protesters were the primary targets of increased police misuse of anti-terror laws.
Anti-terror laws are intended for use on the general public, they always have been, and now we are seeing the rotten fruits of continued blind acceptance contaminate every section of society in this country.
Our government is paralytic with power. It continues unabated in its attempts to force vastly unpopular mass biometric ID databases down our throats, and has no qualms announcing the fact that it wants the authority to monitor all our phone calls, text messages and emails, all in the name of “fighting terrorism”.
Meanwhile, the primary concern of swathes of the voting public in this country remains whether or not Simon Cowell will still come on their television every Saturday night and demoralize a deluded housewife for their entertainment pleasure.
Britain has become a literal realisation of George Orwell’s Airstrip One. Of course, if you don’t like that or disagree with any of our government’s laws you will either be deported, or if you hold a different nationality, you may simply be banned from entering the country as well as publicly shamed.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a positive note to end on, however, I do believe that more and more people are waking up to the control grid that has been constructed around them in this country. The question is will enough people wake up quickly enough to put a stop to this onslaught on our liberties before they are completely wiped out?
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May 6th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
we were all told in the uk the the new anti terror laws were to protect us but supprise supprise they are being used against the uk population to control us a.since this goverment has come to power they have erroded most of our civil liberties this has been done with slight of hand and a step at a time so none of us sheeple take to much notice.we are in fast changing times in the uk I hope things do not get any worse I remember my nan (grand mother) used to say “plan for the worst hope for the best”
TheGhost Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Dear: Alex Jones
I am a research scientist in the field of hydrogen technology. A close friend of mine and a fellow scientist introduced me to your radio program. I have been listening to your program for the past year now. I have come to believe you are for the people of this wonderful country of ours, for that reason I would like to tell you my story. I am Blackfoot Sioux Indian from the Browning Res. in Montana. As a child I grew up in a house full of truck drivers my father, my mother, and both my brothers all drive truck. I watched my entire family work themselves to death in a semi. They worked hundreds of hours a week trying just to make ends meet paying for fuel in my father’s business.
In 1990 I was given the Cattell III (A+B) MENSA exam and scored in the top 1% of the populace. My parents were approached by the Department of Defense and my father thought it best if he signed me over to the Federal Government for further studies. I was seventeen at the time when my parents signed me over to be part of project named “Calypso” a government advanced study program at the US School of The America’s Ft. Benning, GA. I was placed with hundreds of other children from many different countries around the world. The testing that was preformed was mostly to find out how our minds functioned and if we could understand advanced technology just by looking at it. I had a special gift in Molecular Physics and could understand the most advanced complex structures used in molecular manipulation and fusion.
Many of us were weeded out of the group and put into smaller study groups and given tasks to perform. In Feb. 1991 I and four others were sworn in at the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. I was placed in a study group at the Chemical/Bio-Weapons, Scientific Studies, and Research & Development Center there. During this time we were given hand drawn blue prints and documents dating from 1766 from English Physicist and Chemist Henry Cavendish along with blue prints and documents from Nikola Tesla, Don Dingle, Stan Myers, Paul Pantone, and many others. Our team was asked to review these documents and see if any of their theories that existed could be used to design a viable system for military use. Over the course of several years my team designed and retrofitted an on-demand hydrogen production system for use in many pieces of military equipment still in use today.
Later that year I was secretly speaking with Eugene Mallove about some of the systems that we were working on. He was very interested in the processes that our group was developing. At that time he told me about the suppression of technology that was going on. I got very concerned that maybe the technology that I was working on could be used against the ones that I love. I started an information campaign within the groups and was building a team to help get the information out to the public.
The first of my team to be killed was a brilliant engineer in KY 2002. While riding his Harley there another bike with two assailants drove by at high speed and hit him in the head with a club killing him instantly. It would be said that it was from a rival biker gang who mistakenly killed Jamie thinking he was someone else. Two months after this incident I was approached by a black car while running on base at Ft. Campbell, KY they followed me during my entire run and I kept looking back with the thought they were from CID.
On that day my wife and my young son would be picked up at our house in Clarksville, TN and taken to the airport on base and sent back to Malaysia. I filed several petitions trying to get them back and to find out where they were sent to. They had no records or information and no records of them being registered on or off base. The Government revoked my passport and has made me a prisoner in my own country making it impossible to travel. They also made it impossible for me to find work by eliminating all official documents of my being in the service or having a Doctorial Degree in Molecular Physics, outside of going back to them. They made my entire past and I being a real person disappear including SS, DL, and supporting documents of my past experiences. This spooked me as you can imagine and I laid low for awhile hoping to get them back.
I went AWOL in June 2003 after I had exhausted all avenues to get my family back. I was visited in Dec. 2003 in Wisconsin where I felt I was safely hidden from the DOD. I was wrong to think that they would not be able to find me because of my military training and background. They kindly asked me to return to duty or be faced with UCMJ charges. I was told if I played by their rules they would reinstate me and my family could come home. I followed their orders in hopes this would get my life and family back. I would teach Bio-Weapons Defense to DHS through the course of the next year at a MS training center. They still had not returned my family to me and I had spent several months serving their cause. While teaching there in March 2004 I learned of Eugene being murdered in his parent’s rental property. This triggered the thought that I would be next in line.
I finished the course that day with SR and got in my pickup truck and drove away from there not looking back. I got rid of all my credit cards and anything that could be traced back to me. I was trying to get back home to Montana. While I was laid over in a hotel in Sioux Falls, SD, I went next door to a bar that was across the street a band was playing. I drank some and watched the band till the end.
At 1:30am I walked out of the bar and a pickup truck with five guys pulled up next to me tossed a bag over my head throwing me into the bed of the truck. The entire time they hit me with clubs. I don’t know how long it lasted, but when they stopped they drug me out of the truck. I still had the bag over my head one of them shot me in the left side. I heard one of them say that f–ker has got to be dead. They got back into their truck and drove off.
I laid there praying they would not return. I think at that point I passed out for awhile. When I woke up I managed to get the bag off my head I crawled towards a light I could see in the distance. I had managed to crawl to a farm house and banged on the door. When he opened the door to see me laid out on his stoop, he helped me to my feet and he said I was the bloodiest thing he had ever seen in all his years. He wanted to call the police but I begged that he did not in fear they would come back and finish the job. I talked him into taking me to the hotel where I got cleaned up I was still bleeding pretty bad at the time. He told me not to worry and that he would help.
He called a vet friend of his who was another older fellow I could tell they had been friends for a very long time. He said I am not going to ask you any questions, but I need to get you fixed up. They patched me up enough to get me to his clinic where he removed the bullet from my side.
I was starting to wake up from the incident when I got to thinking to myself. How did they know where I was? I asked the man if he had an ultrasound machine and he affirmed that he had. I asked him to look at different places on my body where to my surprise he found two small glass cylinders one imbedded in the back of my skull just under the skin on the left side of my head and the other in between the radius and ulna in my right arm. To this day, I do not know how either one of them got there. He gladly removed them both and destroyed them on the spot. I told the men it would probably be best if they not speak about me or this night to anyone. I left the clinic and got in my truck and drove off. I did not go back home I was afraid that they would somehow find out I was still alive and hurt my family to find me.
I drove until I had no gas left in the truck I was out of money and out of time. The town I stopped in had a carnival playing I walked to the carnival and thought this would be the best place to hide out. I went to work for a show that was at the carnival. They did not ask me for any documents nor did they care if I had any. The owner of show would ask questions about my background all the time saying “I was much too smart to be working for a carnival.”
While at the Alameda County Fair in CA. I ran into a salesman who could not find a booth. I had a booth already and he asked if I would share the space with him. I told him I would. While he ran the booth I worked in my trailer on the designs for a hydrogen unit. I had never given up hope that this technology would get out to the people someday.
I was watching the booth and the salesmen started asking me questions about what I was working on. I decided to share with him the technology and a bit of my life story he was very interested. He said he wanted to help me find the right people to get it out to the public. I did not know at the time that he was Mormon and part of a large Mormon community he introduced me to several men I have grown to trust with my life. In the meantime I have been developing a hydrogen on-demand system for the public.
Alex I am here to tell you I have done it! With the help of some fine people I have finished my revolutionary hydrogen fuel and emissions system. This system can be used in both gas and diesel vehicles, but I have run into a snag. The federal government is back at it again. They have been spreading a fear campaign to stop this technology from getting out. I feel it is my duty to make sure this technology is not shelved or lost forever.
I am surrounded by people at all times from our group for safety reasons. What they have been doing is late night drive by’s and firing guns off near the property I am at. Twice now our group has been shot at while out fishing at a nearby lake. Recently they have been parking themselves next to the research center where we are doing the work at. They have also been taping our cell phones and videoing our comings and goings. They even went as far as going to our lead machinist home while he was at the shop, waking his wife up while she was sleeping, and flashing a badge that she could not read. They proceeded to search around the outside of their property. We suspected they may have tried to plant something they could use for a raid of the facility.
I am afraid that once again I have put my friends and family in the crossfire. This technology could make it possible for people to have their own power source for their cars, trucks, homes, and for this crisis that is quickly coming to a head. I cannot let that happen again.
I am asking you Alex to do a story about this technology. Cover it in one of your video interviews before it is too late and the technology is lost. I will put myself in harm’s way to do a live interview about this technology let you see for yourself the technology in action. People are going to be desperate for energy and this is their answer. This is not about making money hell I will cut you in on sales of the product which you could use to make more movies. I am not in this for the money I am in this to help save mankind and you can ask anyone who knows me if that is not 100% the truth. I would give up all of the money of this technology just to know I helped save a life, even if that life is not my own. I ask you Alex man to man patriot to patriot. You could turn this thing into a huge helping hand for the people. You have the power to make a change for all the people of this once bright country of ours. All you have to do is help bring them into the light of this clean renewable technology.
Please contact me.
TheGhost
P.S. I am sure this not going to sit well with the people in power. This is a last ditch effort on my part as I have sent this letter to your e-mail address several times. I have never received a reply. I hope and pray that by placing this information on your website that you will find it in your heart to reach out to find the truth. Thank You and God bless you for all your efforts.
Dangerous Brian Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Ok if
What you say is true. Then sending the blue prints to a number of truth sites by mail, hand in might work. Upload blue prints on a web site for downloading if possible. creating website then at last min upload blue print and name site on a bunch of truth sites so as many people as possible can download before site shutdown? if people like Alex can criticise the government in the way they do then either your not trying hard enough or you technology is flawed in 1 way or another. If true I hope you get it out for all of us to share and build and stop the monopolising.
forerunner11 Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
You should also email alex jones, or one of his assistants. The really don’t read the boards, so writing on the message boards is not going to help you reach alex.
TheGhost Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
I have sent Mr. Jones e-mails several times to e-mail address listed on the site. No one from his staff has ever contacted me. That is why I said it was a last ditch effort to reach him. A member of my research staff suggested I try this route. Thanks for trying to help.
Respectfully
TheGhost
P.S. The IP has investors attached to it. I am not wanting to pitch my device. I am simply wanting to educate the public so that they know that the technology exists and maybe that will raise enough interest to keep the technology in this country. We are trying to get public awareness raised so that our investors will not sell the technology to an over seas company because of the US Government. This technology could create thousands of jobs in this country and bring manufacturing back to this country. Besides the technology is to complicated a device for the general public to build themselves. It takes special water cutting machine, laser cutting machines, and several mills just to create the outer casing. And the inner core takes a NT4000 to create the resonance chambers. But I like how you think.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Calling this the behavior of a “nanny state” is much too polite and civilized for my American ass. This is the kind of thing millions died to prevent from “happening here”. This is more like taking a piss on a WWII soldier’s grave.
Those responsible should be ashamed and beg for the people’s mercy (before being summarily executed).
May 6th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
I am one of those statistics.
Since I released a film on my YouTube Channel about the Parliament Square Peace Protester, Brian Haw – see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMA8pF3DGPc – I have been stopped and searched by Police and HM Customs many times.
Enough is enough.
I have become a Freeman-on-the-Land at Common Law in Lawful Rebellion under Article 61 of the Magna Carta of 1215 – see http://www.tpuc.org – and I am in the process to serving a ‘Notice of Understanding and Intent and Claim of Right’ on each of HM government’s Ministers.
I already have an uncontested Claim of Right to use the Index Mark (or ‘Number Plate’) FREEMAN on my Private Automobile from a Notice served on the Secretary of State for Transport – the same Notice also contains a Fee Schedule of £500 per hour, or part thereof, if I am prevented from engaging in my free travels on the Highways and Byways of the United Kingdom.
So let them stop me if they want – the next time there will be a Bill – and I will use the Courts and Bankruptcy proceeding to collect my Fee.
Love, Peace, Justice, for All.
Neil, of the Kerslake family,
Freeman-on-the-Land at Common Law.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
wow . all these stops lead to a .035 arrest rate for terror crimes. Didn’t they learn anything in Northern Ireland let alone all their former colonies?
If I was Savage I wouldn’t even bother to sue to come onto to this island; only for the stupid remarks.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
the goverment look at us people that are eyes open, as the terrorist’s. what they want is a nation of TV watching zombies. turn off the TV and wake up look around, see the place that you now live in. DO YOU LIKE WHAT YA SEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 6th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Do y’all remember when those miserable brit tommies were laughing their limeied asses off at us yanks for whatever they could think of and here they are in deep shit and most of ‘em won’t even admit to having a clue as to how deep it is or if there is even a problem.
But don’t expect us bloody stupid yanks to come bail your stupid cunts out like we did in ww2.
Fuck you european assholes,American patriots are arming themselves to the teeth and you bloody blighters are whining in your piss warm beer.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
How does it feel now, that they have to be policed in their own country.
The Brits have screwed the entire world for 200 plus years, then the saved themselves from total destruction during the World War II, thanks to USA.
Now they will go down and take USA along with.
mr activist Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
shut your mouth man i didnt do anything to anybody
Dante Reply:
May 7th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Rob mate – do your homework, if you did your comment would be different.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
theyve been monitoring us just like the US monitor american citizens.
by law our intelligence services are not allowed to monitor us (as we have no patriot act that will override those laws) so instead we have a huge spying network based at menwith hill, north yorkshire. this site is used by the NSA (National Security Agency – american not english) and they spy on us instead and then share the information with our government. so you can understand why jack straw was so hasty as to veto the iraq minutes when obama threatened us with cutting off all intelligence ties!
britain, america and many european countries have been spyed upon back in the late 90s (and possibly before). big brother is watching EVERYTHING.
Kingrommel Reply:
May 7th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Agreed mr activist – I think 7/7 was supposed to create the same level that 9/11 did and in turn create enough panic to fasttrack the UK version of the patriot act. However the shock factor was gone once the public was awakened from 9/11.
The 2008 Counter terrorism act was later produced, but went down a different alternative route to the patriot act using other methods of obtaining the same goals.
Cameras everywhere just like BB.
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May 6th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Pathetic slaves… why don’t the people demand better? I would never let this happen where I live. The Brittish government killed over 50 people with the London bombings, and now they get this bullcrap?
May 6th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
read, George Orwell 1984
May 6th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
None of this would have been thinkable without 9/11 and 7/7!!!
All thanks to the CIA, MOSSAD and MI6. Good job!!!
May 6th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
I find it charming that you think the police do that much work here.
Believe me them figures are bullshit.
Why do you pick and choose what to believe from the BBC?
In one minute they are scum liars and the next you quote them, get off the fence.
May 6th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
The thing is, they do these stops, but there are not even enough so-called “terrorist” in london, to warrant a police stop every 3 mins. This is retarded, and they just want to condition people to seeing police have behave like the military, be unlawfully searched, and have dogs and machine guns waved in their face.
The other thing i have been noticing is police in a shooting in ny, where instead of the cops wearing police uniforms, or black paramilitary uniforms, they are now wearing military fatigues. The resemblance to the military, other than a big police bullet proof vest, with the word “POLICE” on it, is uncanny.
May 7th, 2009 at 3:03 am
For those of us from the UK, THIS WEB SITE GIVES YOU the food for your thought process!!
go to eutruth.org.uk AND WAKE UP!!
May 7th, 2009 at 3:04 am
that’s
eutruth.org.uk
May 7th, 2009 at 4:49 am
http://www.muslimyouth.net
has just launched a documentary on stop and searches, check it out
May 7th, 2009 at 11:39 am
I LOVE THE GHOST!!!!!!…smart man, smart man!……KEEP IT UP!!!…..
lets get this guy out to the public!!!!!!!!!!!!!