Coming soon to a city near you?

[babylonsister]

You know the dim one will love the concept and want his very own squad to play with.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1847697.ece

VIP 'stalker' squad set up by government
Joanna Bale for The Times

The government has secretly set up a VIP “stalker” squad to identify and detain terrorists and other individuals who pose a threat to prominent people.

The unit, staffed by police and psychiatrists, will have the power to detain suspects indefinitely using mental health laws.

The Fixated Threat Assessment Centre (FTAC) was quietly established last October and is set to reignite controversy over the detention of suspects without trial.

Until now it has been up to mental health professionals to determine if someone should be forcibly detained, but the new unit uses the police to identify suspects, increasing fears that distinctions are being blurred between criminal investigations and doctors’ clinical decisions.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed that the unit had been established only after its existence was revealed in a Sunday newspaper.

In a statement, it said: “The Fixated Threat Assessment Centre is a joint initiative between the Metropolitan Police, Home Office and Department of Health. Its role is to assess, manage and reduce potential risks and threats from fixated individuals, against people in public life, particularly protected VIPs.

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[Cirque du So-What]

1. Stalin would be proud

This program is rife with potential for abuse. The entire membership of websites that oppose the neocons' war for oil & empire could conceivably be characterized as a 'hornet's nest of fixated individuals.'

It doesn't matter whether the destination is Gitmo or the bowels of a mental institution; once an individual is 'disappeared,' they're in a world of shit!

[Dr.Phool]

2. Stalking is now terrorism?

What's next, littering? Jaywalking?

[lonestarnot]

3. In some cases farting.

[Lars39]

4. So the ruling elite can't be hounded by the public it has abused?

It's official, the US is a police state.