But their use has sparked a privacy
debate, with civil liberties group Big Brother Watch branding the move a
'breach of fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of assembly'.
Police argue they are necessary to crack down on spiralling crime.
Officers previously insisted people could decline to be scanned, before later clarifying that anyone trying to avoid scanners may be stopped and searched.
"Yes, you can decline, but if you do we'll force you to obey. And give you a ticket. Because public safety."
The bastards really ARE treating 1984 as a how-to manual.
I have a quote for the Met. Which, since I'm not under their thumb, I can post without them being able to jail me for hurting their feelings:
Of all tyrannies,
a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most
oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under
omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes
sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment
us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with
the approval of their consciences. - C.S. Lewis
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They definitely have the approval of their own consciences, Firehand -- and pointing it out to them won't dissuade them in the least.
There's only one cure for totalitarian ambition, and Britons have become too effeminate to apply it. Of course, having been deprived of their firearms doesn't help, either.
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