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Spies
on the shelves
 New
surveillance technology, deployed by the supermarkets to deter theft and
control stock, constitutes an unwarranted threat to personal freedom,
and should be curtailed.
In all cases of electronic surveillance,
there should always be a substantial public
purpose (SPP) to be achieved by the installation of further
equipment. There should be a strong presumption against proliferation.
The erosion of personal privacy constitutes a grave threat
to personal freedom, and must be minimised at every point. This deployment by the supermarkets fails
to satisfy the public purpose
test, and should be discontinued.
- For further argument, in his personal
capacity, from SoCLA Secretary
Roger Warren Evans, click
through...
Abuse of "anti-terrorism"
SoCLA shares
the concerns of LIBERTY about the use of anti-terrorist powers to silence
legitimate political dissent, and supports its plans for legal action.
The
UK was the only EU country to declare a "state of emergency", for the
purpose of derogating from the Human Rights Convention. And the
Labour Government should not allow itself to be driven into greater and
greater authoritarianism.
SoCLA
considers the threat of public disorder to have been
greatly exaggerated, in the case of the London Arms Fair demonstrations.
These are seductive Police powers, requiring a strong nerve and sound
judgment for their proper deployment. Repressive authorities
constitute their own threat to the proper liberties of the citizen.
Identity Cards
 SoCLA continues to oppose the introduction, by the UK Government,
of official identification cards capable of being used as identity cards. We
must not be hustled, by Whitehall interests, into the strengthening the
apparatus of a Police State. Our traditions of liberal policing are
precious, and should be zealously conserved.
Labour should retain a due sense of perspective and avoid the adoption of
governmental techniques which threaten the gratuitous erosion of civil
liberties. More, more...
"Human" rights not for corporations
SoCLA will campaign for the amendment of the
European Convention of Human Rights to restrict its operation to the assertion
of the rights of natural persons only, making it impossible for any artificial
or “legal” person, whether commercial corporation or otherwise, to avail itself
of ECHR protection. "Human rights"
relating to property have wrongfully been applied, by
Protocol, to artificial (or "legal") persons as well as
natural persons. That is
the effect of the First Protocol - check the wording. This was
a lobbying triumph, for the corporate sector.
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