From the Boys and Girls in Blue…
[Edit 7/11/2007: I mention SOCPA in this article. In fact the restriction on Aldershot and Farnborough turns out to be under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000. This is even more ridiculous than some aspects of SOCPA, and was the one used to arrest Walter Wolfgang at the Labour Party Conference.]
I mentioned recently that the whole of Aldershot and Farnborough is a “sensitive area” under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act - at least as reported by the police officer who considered Wat Tyler to be a threat to national security when he made a video outside an IBM site Porsche Dealer. Quite how an old bloke making a video of himself on the other side of the road to a computer company office is a terrorist threat is a point for the authorities to answer.
Those were the laws under which a woman was arrested for reading out a list of war dead at the Cenotaph, and ban demonstrations without advanced permission within around 1km of Parliament, and - apparently - the whole of Aldershot and Farnborough (hat tip Wat Tyler who was SOCPA’d outside
a Porsche dealerIBM (IBM Waste Watch Video 2 minutes in).
Tracing a search about SOCPA and Aldershot, I came up with this bizarre statement in a set of minutes of a police meeting:
232.17 <firstname lastname> is to produce loo news flyers for SOCPA.
Loo News Flyers ?? !! The mind boggles (or mine does).
Well - as long as it works I have no objection.
And here’s Wat Tyler’s video with the SOCPA in Aldershot (about consultants):
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