Police demand new powers to stop and search terror suspects

[harvey007]

Source: The Guardian

Police have asked the government for a new counter-terrorism power to stop and search people without having to suspect them of involvement in crime, the Guardian has learned.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/29/police-stop-and-search-powers

[midnight]

1. I guess we never saw this coming! Will terrorist profiling be like that of illegal aliens?

Those who were certain shoes? Maybe they can issue us all the right directions on what to wear, what to read, whom to talk with to avoid suspicion....

[virgogal]

3. Are you in the U.K. ?

[midnight]

5. I wish I could be comfortable that this is happening in the U.K.

But I'm not....

[onehandle]

2. In the UK. nt

[jwirr]

4. It is the word suspect that I do not trust. If we are activists they suspect

us even when we love our nation as much as they say they do. Suspect can mean anyone they do not like or agree with.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Can you say GESTAPO?

[felix_numinous]

7. Wow.

When will we stop calling ourselves the free world?

[Tempest]

8. And the very next story in the list is this...

Terrorist watch list: One tip now enough to put name in database, officials say

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4676681