HUMAN
RIGHTS UNDER NEW LABOUR
House
Arrest without Trial
Proposal January 2005 - debate in Parliament March 10
The
Home Secretary wants to detain any of us under house arrest on the merest
suspicion of being connected to terrorism. This will be without trial
or any proper right to defend ourselves against a New Labour Executive
Control Order.
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Detention
without Trial Anti-terrorism,
Crime
and Security Act, 2001
The
Act gives the Home Secretary powers
to detain foreign nationals he suspects of terrorist intentions in prison
without trial for an indefinite period and without charges or evidence against
them being revealed.
In
order to bring these powers into being, the New Labour Government declared
a 'Technical State of Emergency' and opted out of Section
5 of the Convention on Human Rights.
In
December 2004, The House of Lords ruled that Home Secretary's powers not
compatible with the Convention on Human Rights.
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The
Power to Rule as a Dictatorship under a Sate of Emergency
The Civil Contingencies Act, 2004
This
gives the Home Secretary the right to declare a 'State of Emergency'
even graver than the 'Technical State of Emergency' under which
we now live.
Under
a State of Emergency, ministers have powers to rule by decree, suspend acts
of Parliament, confiscate property without compensation, and set up special
tribunals for those who fail to fall into line.
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Anti-Social
Behaviour Orders (Asbos)
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998
Asbos
are civil orders made in court, but without the safeguards of criminal proceedings.
The local councils, health authorities, social services, police forces,
residents' associations, and registered social landlords, can apply to have
restraints put on your liberty. Many have been used against children.
Anyone
who breaks the conditions of an Asbo is committing a crime punishable by
prison.
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ID
Identity Card Bill
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Identity
cards will be phased in from 2008. The cards will be issued automatically
to people who are renewing their passports and the details, together with
biometric identifiers - such as an iris print - put on a new National Identity
Register.
Eventually the card will become compulsory for all British residents.
The ID Card Legislation creates 31 new powers for the Home Secretary, seven
new civil fines, and eight new criminal offences.
Under
the bill you can be fined £1000 for failing to tell the authorities
when you move home.
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Making
it Easier to Convict You
Criminal Justice Act 2003
New
Labour wanted to dramatically curtail your ancient right to Trial by Jury.
The House of Lords (soon to be abolished) got in the way of its plans.
Even so, the Act removes the ancient principle of Double Jeopardy by which
you could not be tried again and again for the same offence.
Trial by Jury is restricted in complex cases of fraud or cases of jury intimidation.
The
court can now hear evidence of your 'bad character' if it is 'important
explanatory' evidence, including past convictions.
Criminal
Justice Act 2003
Snoopers'
Charter
Regulation of Investigator Powers (RIP) Act 2000
Telecom
companies now have to keep catalogues of web sites you visit, records of
e-mail recipients, lists of telephone numbers dialled, and the location
of your mobile phones at all times it is switched on.
The RIP Act gives powers of automatic access to the telco's records about
you to the police, Inland Revenue, MI5 and their ilk.
Automatic
access is also given to the ambulance service, fire authorities, HM Coastguard,
the Scottish Drugs Enforcement Agency and the UK Atomic Energy Authority
Constabulary.
In
2002 the Government proposed that over a thousand Government agencies should
have access. There was an outcry.
Following an extension of the Act in 2003, about 20 other government agencies
can access your records but these ones need to obtain clearance by the Interceptions
Commissioner.
Warrants
for line taps and postal intercepts used to be granted by magistrates. Under
the RIP Act the Home Secretary and senior police chiefs and other officials
give approval.
RIP
Act 2000
