I was reading this article on El Reg, a site I read for Tech news daily, and came across this VERY Interesting paragraph:
Am I reading that correctly? Are they setting up metal detectors in public places, and if you refuse to go through, possibly using it as a grounds for a search?What is far more common is the way in which the law is bent for outwardly benign purposes. Many police forces now set up "knife arches" as part of their drive against knife crime. They have no legal power to compel an individual to walk through them, yet the Met has indicated that refusal to walk through an arch when asked to do so by an officer "may" be grounds for a search. In other words, the police have no explicit power to compel an individual to walk through an arch – if parliament had wished to grant that power, it probably would have – but creative interpretation of the law has given it to them all the same.
Anyone have any more information on this? That is pretty ridiculous. I know they have very restrictive gun and even knife laws, but seriously?
It's a very interesting article overall, and gives a good look at our possible future if our government starts following the track the current UK Administration is on.
It looks like they're heading straight for the government portrayed in 'V For Vendetta'.
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