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What is really scary about this is that the man in question is the Chairman of the Park. Yet he has been detained under the Terror Act for trying to protect the park against Police vandalism.

This shows how these Terror Laws must be repealed as soon as Cameron gets into office.

They should never be used on ordinary people going about normal daily business.

Until that happens we are in a Police State.

This seems to be typical of PCSOs who seem to believe they are a law unto themselves. They obviously lack common sense and respect for others, are not given any sensitivity training and are generally not very bright.

When did PCSOs acquire powers of arrest?

Locked Out wrote:
When did PCSOs acquire powers of arrest?

when cutbacks demanded it.

We all have the power to arrest. PCSOs, so far as I know, can detain someone until the real police arrive. I'm not sure how much they can enforce that detention, or if anyone has tested that yet.

I saw on the news how a 5ft pensioner detained a burglar in her kitchen, using her walking stick, until the police arrived. She looked quite fired up when they spoke to her. Maybe they should make her a PCSO.

Dont think for one minute that Cameron will repeal any of the anti terror laws. Believe me there will probably be more introduced under a Tory government.

Exactly Giles; the Tories are the party of Home Secretary Michael Howard who decided it would be a great idea to allow people to manufacture historical claims of imaginary abuse and win a fortune.

No faith in them at all.

sadly I think you are right and BR is over-confident that the Tories will repeal laws.

This is always the great fear when restrictive laws are introduced..what will a future government do once these laws have quietly sunk into everyday use.

Pinhole cameras all round I say ! (and don't forget..you may catch a papparazzi image of the latest Jade Goody incarnation and make some money )


Citizen journaism on the net can expose everything. But that will be the next battle..government control of the internet with the aid of private enterprise. If in doubt..reagrd this..plans are afoot in Australia for News Ltd to eventually give-away copies of it's daily newspapers as the net gains advertising revenue.

So, in case the Tories might not repeal any terror laws, we must keep a party which will definately intensify the terror laws. What great common sense (not).

I see only two way that Labour can remain in power after the next election. One is to abolish the election altogether. They can do this by denying the vote to prisoners and forcing the EU to take out an injunction preventing the election. The other way is to exploit and spread the view that nobody else will be any better. Marvelous spin which, even though people know it is spin, they fall for it anyway.

"Don't vote Tory because they might not do what you want them to do. We are a terrible government and we intend to make life even more oppressive and unberable in future, but nobody else will be any better so you might as well keep us."

Well, to put it bluntly. I'm not falling for that crap.

It's quite an effective tactic. Disillusion the voters to a state of apathy where they either don't vote at all or the opposition vote is fragmented to such a degree that it ceases to be a threat. I believe it's called divide and conquer.

Get a few people to spread negativity, regarding the main opposition, via internet forums. Negativity spreads faster than positivity, especially in a recession. The hard core Labour voters will remain loyal, as per their programming, so Labour will undoubtedly have the larger share of vote, even if greatly reduced.

Result = up to 5 more years of Labour domination. Time enough to create thousands more laws, give more powers to police and other authorities, and systematically rid the nation of the limitations of democracy.

I wouldn't advocate not voting Tory..hell.. I may even for the first time in my life !

I'm just saying not to expect too much to change.

But a clean sweep of the present crew in charge couldn't be bad !