Yes, yes , I know what do events in the UK or anywhere else for that matter got to do with South Africa? In case you missed the memo, we post about issues affecting South Africans wherever they are in the world and the story below involves the UK where it so happens the greatest number of South African expats are to be found.
Can there be a more effed up politically correct country on the planet than current day Great Britain?
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From the Daily Mail (UK)
Police are making unjustified and 'almost certainly' illegal searches of white people to provide 'racial balance' to Government figures.
Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of terror laws, said he knew of cases where suspects were stopped by officers even though there was no evidence against them.
He warned that police were wasting time and money by carrying out these 'self-evidently unmerited searches' which were an invasion of civil liberties and 'almost certainly unlawful'.
The searches of, for example, 'blonde women' who fit no terrorist profile come against a backdrop of complaints from rights groups that the number of black and Muslim people being stopped by police is disproportionate.
Lord Carlile suggests whites are being needlessly stopped in order to balance the books.
Last year, the number of whites searched under anti-terror laws rocketed by 185 per cent, from 25,962 to 73,967.
Whites made up around two-thirds of all those stopped, although, compared to the overall population, blacks and Asians remain far more likely to be stopped and searched.
Lord Carlile, a Liberal Democrat peer and QC, condemned the wrongful use of Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in his annual report on anti-terror laws.
He said police were carrying out the searches on people they had no basis for suspecting so they could avoid accusations of prejudice.
Lord Carlile wrote: 'I have evidence of cases where the person stopped is so obviously far from any known terrorism profile that, realistically, there is not the slightest possibility of him/her being a terrorist, and no other feature to justify the stop.
'In one situation the basis of the stops was numerical only, which is almost certainly unlawful and in no way an intelligent use of the procedure.
'I believe it is totally wrong for any person to be stopped in order to produce a racial balance in the Section 44 statistics. There is ample anecdotal evidence this is happening.
'I can well understand the concerns of the police that they should be free from allegations of prejudice, but it is not a good use of precious resources if they waste them on self-evidently unmerited searches.
'It is also an invasion of the civil liberties of the person who has been stopped, simply to 'balance' the statistics.
'The criteria for section 44 stops should be objectively based, irrespective of racial considerations: if an objective basis happens to produce an ethnic imbalance, that may have to be regarded as a proportional consequence of operational policing.'
Lord Carlile later said the number of Section 44 searches could be cut by half in London without damaging national security.
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Doberman, I think it has a lot to do with South Africa! - these people were (among others) the architects of our demise - and are now suffering the same fate. Gives me a slight twinge of schadenfreude ... but of course I exclude the non-liberals, particularly the South Africans who are now living there.
@ deprecator, quite right. Somewhere in the back of my mind is this glee that these people are getting a taste of their own medicine. Can you recall that some of the biggest anti-apartheid marches were in the UK? Also the same people that shafted Rhodesians. Still, I feel for the displaced Saffas that have to go through this race shite again. I think once in a lifetime should be enough.
I am well used to being stopped at airports. As a student in the 1990s, getting questioned at English airports was a way of life. I didn't fit the profile of a terror suspect - in spite of being Irish I am a Protestant and Unionist, but to the English, they didn't know the difference. A lot of IRA terrorists had British passports, like I did.
How frustrating to want to cry out, but I'm on YOUR side!
The same happened in America. And Canada. It's just something you have to get used to. Luckily in the States and Canada, they were polite about it. I got the sense they didn't really want to search through my bags, and they probably sensed my attitude that, yeh, bringing drugs to America is like bringing apples to an orchard. But they have their security concerns, and their rules. But like I said, I grew up with it.
In the US, they can't profile - so they have to search white people. Nobody wants to do it, and they were quite apologetic. British airports on the other hand, are staffed by the rudest antisocial troglodytes you could ever have the misfortune to meet.
What is even MORE frustrating is, like this article says, being searched just to make up some racial quota, just so nobody cries racism.
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