Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and protests, and storing their data on a network of nationwide intelligence databases.
The hidden apparatus has been constructed to monitor "domestic extremists", the Guardian can reveal in the first of a three-day series into the policing of protests. Detailed information about the political activities of campaigners is being stored on a number of overlapping IT systems, even if they have not committed a crime.
Senior officers say domestic extremism, a term coined by police that has no legal basis, can include activists suspected of minor public order offences such as peaceful direct action and civil disobedience.
Three national police units responsible for combating domestic extremism are run by the "terrorism and allied matters" committee of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo). In total, it receives £9m in public funding, from police forces and the Home Office, and employs a staff of 100. continues
The hidden apparatus has been constructed to monitor "domestic extremists", the Guardian can reveal in the first of a three-day series into the policing of protests. Detailed information about the political activities of campaigners is being stored on a number of overlapping IT systems, even if they have not committed a crime.
Senior officers say domestic extremism, a term coined by police that has no legal basis, can include activists suspected of minor public order offences such as peaceful direct action and civil disobedience.Three national police units responsible for combating domestic extremism are run by the "terrorism and allied matters" committee of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo). In total, it receives £9m in public funding, from police forces and the Home Office, and employs a staff of 100. continues
ACPO, that well known private company of police officers, for £9,000.000 a year what do they care for the law?
The problem with 'domestic extremism' (for which there is no legal definition ) is that it is clearly a subjective term, similarly 'hate' crime, it is a tool of authoritarian communists and fascists to persecute those deemed 'enemies of the state'. One man's domestic extremist is another's political activist.
It's going to be the Gulags for the English, as we have seen recently the Labour Government is on a mission to eradicate the English and their culture, and here's just another way to piss you off and harass you into leaving the country, or add you to the ever rising suicide figures and murder rate.
And enjoy the new census, where you'll have to let the authorities know the name of everyone that ever stays the night at your home on pain of a £1000.00 fine, that and many more ways to tax and steal your hard earned money.
(That should get me on the list.)
Update: By request of Mrs Raft, order your 'Domestic Extremist' T-Shirts from the Daily Politics: Here.
Update II: At Mr Submariner's request: (Unlike the tee shirt Ms Lawson has the equipment to get every single letter in, in a very large font.)
Update III: Mr Submariner, on closer examination, my photoshop efforts fall down, The 'D' is all wrong.
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'domestic extremism'
The problem with the term 'domestic extremism' is that it attempts to stigmatize any strongly-held belief as automatically negative and imply that there is something not-quite-legal or safe about merely holding a view.
The term needs to be devalued quickly by being tagged on to everything. Twitterer, blogger? Domestic extremist. Go to church regularly, any church? Domestic Extremist. Help at the local play school? Domestic extremist and posible child abuser. Parent? Domestic Extremist and discriminator. Allotment holder? Domestic Extremist and survivalist resistor. Fisherman? Domestic Extremist plotting on a river bank. Elvis impersonator? Domestic Extremist and peddler of revolutionary lyrics.
How about doing some designs for a Domestic Extremist T-shirt and start selling them via the website?
"This is what a Domestic Extremist Looks Like". I favour a panel of mirror-finish foil, like on a Teletubbie's tummy. Then when ever someone looks in to the mirror they too can see what a Domestic Extremist looks like.
Hope they haven't copyrighted the term - I reckon there's money in it.
Darlink, ze pinkness complements ze spelling error perfectly to capture, ow you zay, ze essence.
It's a TDP speciality Mr Lugerfeldt, though if I made it a regular feature I'd get too many comments.
Mr Bob, Mrs Raft: I love the "domestic extremist" T shirt and wonder if it may be possible to have it modelled by someone associated with extreme domestic behaviour, such as... oh, Nigella Lawson perhaps?
Mr Bob: on a point of order, I may be wrong but I believe the Census proposal, draconian and excessive though it is, is for us to be asked the name, address, sex, age, etc of partis staying overnight _on the census date_, not those who may have at any time in the past.
This does not make it acceptable, of course!
Mr Sub, you are probably right, on both points, there's a lady modeliing in pink at the top of the page, a bit of a 'domestic extremist' herself, I'm afraid she's all you're going to get unless Mrs Raft sends some photos in.
Mr Bob, you are a gent.
Mr Submariner, the beauty is, it's all part of Mrs Raft's campaign, I get a lot of visitors via Google image searches, anyone looking for 'Domestic extremist' is going to be seeing these pics, we just have to wait for the Googelbots to index the pics.
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