Britain - The start of the slippery slope

2006-01-02T03:47:28+01:00

It is 2am and here I sit having got up from my bed, because I am actually frightened at what is happening to my country.

It terrifies me that we are all just sitting around watching as the Police and all of the other organs of The State gradually invade every vestige of our lives.
I honestly don't know what to do except to emigrate.

We started with the odd Policeman with a hand held speed camera. There he stood with his little radar gun, hiding in the bushes and when you passed him, his colleague down the road would stop you. The thought is actually rather blissful now.

Eventually along came the Police National Computer at Hendon in North London, on the Metropolitan Police Training Estate. What an advance! They had a record of every vehicle registered in the country and in just a few seconds they could tell a Policeman on the street who owned the car, based on records taken from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Computer in Swansea. The PNC was so fast that the DVLA had a terminal from the Metropolitan Police fitted in their premises as the Met's Terminals could access the information faster that the DVLC could. After a while, they got the additional Technology to allow the operators in Police Forces to add reports to vehicle records. Things like stolen and abandoned reports could be put on the car record. Some vehicles even came up with the term Blocked to indicate that the vehicle was either a Government Security or Special Branch Vehicle or a vehicle of Interest to them.
We progress again and along comes the Disqualified Driver Database on the Police National Computer. A record of everyone disqualified from driving so that that the driver of a given vehicle could be checked on. Now we get really sophisticated, as we have the Criminal Record Office index of people known to the Police suddenly available to the officer on the street. A while later, sophistication upon sophistication, The Wanted and Missing Records from the Criminal Records Office are added. A real Holy of Holies this computer now.
Nothing, at this point, is in any way threatening to the fredom and liberty of any single citizen, except the criminal fraternity and I don't think even they felt particularly threatened by it.

Unfortunately, Chief Constables and Politicians are never satisfied. They never know when enough is enough. We had a bit of street violence during the last Tory Government. No, not Maggie's Miners and not even the Poll Tax Riots!! (Personally I thought the Poll Tax was excellent - especially when we see what the political garbage have done to the altermnative, Council Tax) Anyway, I think it was Michael Howard who authorised the street cameras, you know, the street spies that allowed local council snoopers in their little basements to watch everything we did in the Town Centres (and even take video tapes that they tried to sell, of people doing naughties in street doorways and in car parks and stair wells)
This was about the time when the rot set in. This was the time when Police and Council Snoopers realised they could really turn the screw on the motoring public.
This was when the Policeman with his little Radar Gun began to disappear, as did the Policeman on the street and in the village. Suddenly, there were speed trap cameras.

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Britain - The start of the slippery slope