>Officers said they were stopping him under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism
Act 2000 – this gives the police wide powers to search people at border
crossings to check if they are involved in terrorism.
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>The police do not need any grounds to stop and search people at borders under these powers.
But don’t worry, these powers will never be abused! (according to the politicians who brought them in).
I fucking hated these proposals when they came in, precisely for this reason – the fact that someone can basically decide to detain and search someone, and charge them with a crime if they resist – without any justification, however flimsy, being needed.
I’m not shouting that intelligence operations and reasonable measures shouldn’t be carried out, but giving ***anyone*** this kind of power is moronic.
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You need a new angle to make this outrage the right, like, if the police can do this for a protestor why aren’t all the ‘possible terroist boat crossings’ being upheld.
>”The police officers claimed that Ernest had participated in demonstrations in France as a justification for this act – a quite remarkably inappropriate statement for a British police officer to make and which seems to clearly indicate complicity between French and British authorities on this matter.
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>”It was demanded that he give up his phone and pass codes to the officers, with no justification or explanation offered. This morning, Ernest was formally arrested and transferred to a police station, accused of obstruction because of his refusal to give up his pass codes.”
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>”Ernest is a 28-year-old foreign rights manager. He doesn’t have any particular power or influence. I think they just decided he’s someone good to pick on to see if they can get any intelligence.”
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>Pamela Morton of the National Union of Journalists, said it “seems extraordinary” that British police used terror legislation to arrest a publisher
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>”We also urge the French authorities to intervene to guarantee the protection of their nationals against such repressive measures,” it added.
what an extraordinary + terrible arrest = the exact abuse of power that people were afraid of
“Elp us wiz our dissidentz and trouble makers and maybe we can elp you wiz your boat crossings; eh Monsieur Sunak?”
Just imagine if this had kicked off in Russia or China? Newsnight would run headlines for two weeks, min. So much for supporting a free and impartial press…
*”…officers told Mr Moret, who works as a foreign rights manager, he had taken part in demonstrations about President Emmanuel Macron raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 in France”*
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>Officers said they were stopping him under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism
Act 2000 – this gives the police wide powers to search people at border
crossings to check if they are involved in terrorism.
>
>The police do not need any grounds to stop and search people at borders under these powers.
But don’t worry, these powers will never be abused! (according to the politicians who brought them in).
I fucking hated these proposals when they came in, precisely for this reason – the fact that someone can basically decide to detain and search someone, and charge them with a crime if they resist – without any justification, however flimsy, being needed.
I’m not shouting that intelligence operations and reasonable measures shouldn’t be carried out, but giving ***anyone*** this kind of power is moronic.
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You need a new angle to make this outrage the right, like, if the police can do this for a protestor why aren’t all the ‘possible terroist boat crossings’ being upheld.
>”The police officers claimed that Ernest had participated in demonstrations in France as a justification for this act – a quite remarkably inappropriate statement for a British police officer to make and which seems to clearly indicate complicity between French and British authorities on this matter.
>
>”It was demanded that he give up his phone and pass codes to the officers, with no justification or explanation offered. This morning, Ernest was formally arrested and transferred to a police station, accused of obstruction because of his refusal to give up his pass codes.”
>
>”Ernest is a 28-year-old foreign rights manager. He doesn’t have any particular power or influence. I think they just decided he’s someone good to pick on to see if they can get any intelligence.”
>
>Pamela Morton of the National Union of Journalists, said it “seems extraordinary” that British police used terror legislation to arrest a publisher
>
>”We also urge the French authorities to intervene to guarantee the protection of their nationals against such repressive measures,” it added.
what an extraordinary + terrible arrest = the exact abuse of power that people were afraid of
“Elp us wiz our dissidentz and trouble makers and maybe we can elp you wiz your boat crossings; eh Monsieur Sunak?”
Just imagine if this had kicked off in Russia or China? Newsnight would run headlines for two weeks, min. So much for supporting a free and impartial press…
*”…officers told Mr Moret, who works as a foreign rights manager, he had taken part in demonstrations about President Emmanuel Macron raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 in France”*