Coming to a supermarket near you....

[InsaneApache]

....a prison.


Short-term “jails” are planned for supermarkets and town centres to deal with yobs and shoplifters under Home Office proposals to ease the burden on police. Discussions have already started about building a “retail jail” inside the Selfridges store in Oxford Street, London.

Suspects would be held for up to four hours in a small room with a clear plastic front so they were visible to custody officers at all times during their detention.

Ministers are also proposing a huge expansion of police powers to take fingerprints, DNA and other samples from offenders and store them on national databases. People caught speeding, failing to wear a seat belt, allowing their dog to foul the footpath and dropping litter could be forced to give fingerprints or DNA to police for checking against other databases.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1517389.ece

I'll say this for gauleiter Blair, he has surpassed all my expectations. Fingerprinting kiddies, compulsory ID cards, black boxes to monitor your movements, vote rigging, illegal wars, detention without trial, corruption, quietly dismantling the UK. The man's a genius. (Mugabe should be more than able to take a leaf or two from Blair and his methods).

A utopian dream, indeed. :wall:

[Fisherking]

Truth can be stranger than fiction...:inquisitive:

is there murcury in the water suply?:dizzy2:

[Husar]

Wow, fingerprints or DNA for speeding.:dizzy2: That will really make it easier for the police if they have to get DNA and fingerprints from everyone.

I think Gauleiter isn't even that far off, I'd try to get rid of that guy as soon as possible. That making a big thing of every minor crime sounds really scary.
Next they're going to put you in prison for a day and put all your data into a terrorist databank because you were still on the street when the traffic light turned red.:idea2:
It all starts with minor things...:no:

[InsaneApache]

As a much wiser man than me put it...

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

oh, hang on, there's some men in grey suits at my frontdoor......:sweatdrop:

[BDC]

It's getting a little ridiculous. Luckly because everything is so poorly thought through and made up on the fly to get good headlines in the gutter press it's rarely actually implemented. I mean how are cells in town going to help the police? It's up there with ID cards. Completely useless.

We need to get Cameron in on the reverse-all-of-Tony's-crap card. He'll probably turn out as bad in the long term, but short term at least he should shift some of this rubbish.

In the meantime, someone needs to finish modifying a highly-infectious yet fairly harmless bacteria that happens to carry vast amounts of junk human DNA, rendering DNA testing useless, as everyone will come up positive for everything.

[naut]

As a much wiser man than me put it...

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

oh, hang on, there's some men in grey suits at my frontdoor......:sweatdrop:
:laugh4:

All hail the police state.

[Crazed Rabbit]

People caught speeding, failing to wear a seat belt, allowing their dog to foul the footpath and dropping litter could be forced to give fingerprints or DNA to police for checking against other databases.

That sounds fun.

Well, at least you'll be...
http://www.samizdata.net/~pdeh/Big_Brother_is_watching_sml.jpg

Have fun with the whole police-state thing, and call me after the next revolution.

Crazed Rabbit

[ShadeHonestus]

Have fun with the whole police-state thing, and call me after the next revolution.


Oh they will, we are on their speed dial, even though they want to block our number...

[The_Doctor]

Every time I read one of these threads I think:

Republic of Merseyside.

https://img66.imageshack.us/img66/5236/republicofmerseysideflajw5.png (https://imageshack.us)

The blue bit represents the Mersey. The Liver bird represents Liverpool, the capital of the republic and the stars represent each district in the republic, Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St.Helens and the Wirral.

[BDC]

The UK could disintegrate into a series of allied city states. Brilliant.

Be like ancient Greece only with more alcohol and less sun.

[ShadeHonestus]

Forget the supermarket jails, go back to putting them in stocks for a few hours and let people throw the unsold produce at them. If they shoplifted because they are hungry and thats the only reason, for the procurement of food, let them eat what was thrown.

This lets the citizenry participate in its own justice and hey, if they really are concerned and feel sorry for them, they could walk up and give them food or at least see where they are at to offer them a job...

[Hosakawa Tito]

Oh where is Monty Python when you need them?

[ShadeHonestus]

Oh where is Monty Python when you need them?

:yes:

[Gregoshi]

Jails in supermarkets? How'd that work? No checkout lines? Or just an endless series of price checks until their sentence is up? :laugh4:

[Sasaki Kojiro]

People caught speeding, failing to wear a seat belt, allowing their dog to foul the footpath and dropping litter could be forced to give fingerprints or DNA to police for checking against other databases.

It's not like the police are going to do that to everyone. This is just so if they think someone is a criminal they can get their prints for some little :daisy:. Here in the US they usually run your license even if they only pulled you over for a burnt out bulb. No different.

Policemen are generally good people.

[InsaneApache]

Policemen are generally good people.

I wish I had your faith.