You may have seen this story elsewhere.
Let's look at this shall we....
A council yesterday admitted using laws designed to track serious criminals to spy on a family for nearly three weeks to find out if they were lying about living in a school catchment area.
I admit my knowledge of RIPA is not what it should be but I'm not certain that trying to get a child into a school (even if the parents are intending to move out of the catchment area) is a 'serious crime'. Terrorism is a serious crime. Murder is pretty serious too. Rape is damned serious. Getting a kiddywink into St. Snob's School For The Intelligent and Good Looking is not.
The family are angry after Poole borough council, in Dorset, revealed it had followed them and watched them at home to check whether they lived in the correct area for one of their three children, a three-year-old girl, to be accepted at a local school
Let's look at this shall we....
A council yesterday admitted using laws designed to track serious criminals to spy on a family for nearly three weeks to find out if they were lying about living in a school catchment area.
I admit my knowledge of RIPA is not what it should be but I'm not certain that trying to get a child into a school (even if the parents are intending to move out of the catchment area) is a 'serious crime'. Terrorism is a serious crime. Murder is pretty serious too. Rape is damned serious. Getting a kiddywink into St. Snob's School For The Intelligent and Good Looking is not.
The family are angry after Poole borough council, in Dorset, revealed it had followed them and watched them at home to check whether they lived in the correct area for one of their three children, a three-year-old girl, to be accepted at a local school
This wasn't some simple stakeout then, was it? It was following a family with a young child. It is, without being too hyperbolic, state-sanctioned stalking.
Tim Martin, Poole council's head of legal and democratic services, said: "The use of RIPA procedures ensures that surveillance is properly authorised and provides protection for the subject of the investigation.
Well done, Tim Martin. You have just won an award. The award is very rarely given out but it is only given to those who truly deserve it. You have won The Reactionary Snob Award For Outstanding Achievements in the field of Abject Cuntery. ''Legal and Democratic Services''? What the fuck does that even mean? Provides protection for the subject of the investigation? What? That's stretching it a bit, non? If you mean they are protected by having two goons follow their every move how can I disagree? I'd contend that it is a bit of an invasion of privacy and a total waste of police and council time?
Tim Martin, Poole council's head of legal and democratic services, said: "The use of RIPA procedures ensures that surveillance is properly authorised and provides protection for the subject of the investigation.
Well done, Tim Martin. You have just won an award. The award is very rarely given out but it is only given to those who truly deserve it. You have won The Reactionary Snob Award For Outstanding Achievements in the field of Abject Cuntery. ''Legal and Democratic Services''? What the fuck does that even mean? Provides protection for the subject of the investigation? What? That's stretching it a bit, non? If you mean they are protected by having two goons follow their every move how can I disagree? I'd contend that it is a bit of an invasion of privacy and a total waste of police and council time?
The council is keen to ensure that the information given by parents who apply for school places is true. This protects the majority of honest parents against the small number of questionable applications.
Questionable? I remember the good old days when, you know, you were innocent till proven guilty and when the state only followed citizens if there was a palpable and current threat to the rest of the population.
The Home Office said the RIPA legislation did not appear to have been used inappropriately.
Fuck you, you sordid, 'orrible, malignant cunts. RIPA is a woeful bit of legislation as it is but surely it should not be used for such minor instances.
RS
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Stephen Pollard made the point:
It's rather the sheer lunacy of a school system in which catchment areas and bureaucratic diktat matter and which entails such checks.
Unbelievable, too much time on their hands and no doubt being paid exorbitant wages.
"Abject Cuntery.".... the subject isn't a laughing matter but I did laugh at this. Thought it was only Aussies who said that kind of thing.
What a waste of money!!!
Re: the third to last paragraph. I'm assuming you meant "innocent until proven guilty"?
As Semaj has pointed out, the basic problem is the existence of catchment areas and the limited numbers of decent schools. This is in turn caused by most of the schools being run by the State. You might be interested in having a look at the Libertarian Party's education policy, which I think would be an improvement:
http://www.lpuk.org/
saturdays Daily Telegraph reports 1,000 such abuses A MONTH by local councils ( that's just the ones they found out about ). Staggering cuntery.
They told us anti-terror legislation would only be used for Anti-Terrorism ( " and serious crime " ) councils are using it for littering and planning issues.
Have you found out what democratic meant in his "legal and democratic services" function title ?
It is funny how they do not say "instead of wasting money on this, we will improve the other schools so that people do not have to resort to be creative with their applications"
This misuse of RIPA is disgusting and not necessary. MI5 are already mandated to do the stake out bit. The cops can too if they have information you are planning a major crime. RIPA was crafted with state security in kind.
The misuse of this legislation by a bloody council is very similar to the misuse of the human rights act to stop terrorist scumbags being deported to their home countries. The law wasn't designed to protect foreign crminals nor was RIPA designed for stalking parents and children.
Of course if councils et al tried a lot harder to make all schools good schools you wouldn't have parents trying to play the system in the first place.
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