HATE HOUR

An extraordinary story in the Sunday Times about the police installing CCTV inside people's homes to try an crack down on crime (I would link but Murdoch's gone behind firewall).

There is a brilliant contradiction in the article:

...police say they will collect footage from the cameras if other "serious offences", such as domestic violence or murders, are committed

Ok at least they are upfront about that but... then it goes on -

[Chief Inspector Martin] Kinchin denied the cameras curtailed civil liberties. "It's something that is done with the consent of the home owner...so a lot of the systems they will switch on when they leave the house and switch off when they're at home"

Can you spot the discrepancy?

And is everyone ready for the exercise and hate hours?

QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES?

Fitwatch is an organisation that turns the table on the forwards intelligence teams of the police - those are the plod that video protestors and activists at demos.

Two of their members were arrested by West Yorkshire Police in 2008 for trying to get officer numbers which, as we have seen in London, have a habit of being covered up thus avoiding responsibility for their actions.

Ignore the climate protestors, Fitwatch are doing an admirable job in highlighting the surveillance and actions of police that appear to have gotten worse in the last few years and watch this video from the Guardian.

Hat Tip: The Ranting Penguin