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Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws
gandhi_2 writes "The Guardian has a story about an ongoing legal battle over the use of full body scanners in the UK. The Protection of Children Act 1978, includes provisions in which it is illegal to create an indecent image or a 'pseudo-image' of a child... which a full body scanner does."
If the government does illegal things (like using full-body scanners on minors) then other people may file a complaint to the police, or directly start a law suit. This happens a lot in civil cases where people or companies sue the government.
The government makes the laws, but is not above the law (at least not in most developed countries with proper separation of powers). Indeed the government can technically do whatever they like, as long as they first make sure their own laws allow them to do so. That's all.
Many day care centers have glass walls and no doors to the toilets these days.
I once made a comment to a day care center "Is it for the protection of the children". She replied "No, It is for the staffs protection".
In post Patriot Act America, the library books scan you.
Um...
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/britain-to-put-cctv-cameras-inside-private-homes/
"£400 million ($668 million) will be spend on installing and monitoring CCTV cameras in the homes of private citizens. Why? To make sure the kids are doing their homework, going to bed early and eating their vegetables. The scheme has, astonishingly, already been running in 2,000 family homes. The government’s “children’s secretary” Ed Balls is behind the plan, which is aimed at problem, antisocial families. The idea is that, if a child has a more stable home life, he or she will be less likely to stray into crime and drugs."
Misreported. No cctv cameras are in people's homes. There are 5~6 families that are forced to lived on government land because of misbehaving. It is offered as an alternative to jail for people with kids.
I mean it is crappy and all but not nearly as evil as wired/you put it.
The official site does give me the chills in some places. Though, they don't seem to go beyond what is normal in most neighborhoods (Even in the US), the way they phrase things is a bit much for me.
http://www.asb.homeoffice.gov.uk/default.aspx
London had 300 knife incidents on the Underground in a week.
If you have a concealed carry permit, you are allowed to carry a gun on MARTA in Atlanta.
We have had no gun issues and no knife issues.
Seriously? You are trying to compare a city of 500,000 with a city of 8.5million? Well, still it fails. Yes, the situation in America really is that bad.
Murders rates for the most recent year I could find.
Atlanta: 129
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London: 130
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Yes, that's right, a city with 17 times the population has the same number of murders in a year. That's 17 times lower murder per capita. And the rates for murder are highest in London, they are practically zero elsewhere in the country. It's the same in any other civilised nation where the gun lobby doesn't have control of the legislature and gun laws are actually somewhat sensible.
I'd tell a UDP joke, but you may not get it. I'd tell a TCP joke, but I'd have to keep repeating it until you got it.
I'm pretty sure you pulled those "statistics" out of your ass, or from an NRA newsletter, same thing.
Here's an article: Tube crime plummets with knife scanners at stations: "knife-enabled offences on the London transport network had fallen from a mid-2006 peak of about 70 a month to about 20 today." "300 per week" is 1200 a month. So you're exaggerating by a factor of 60.
And as for the "no issues" of MARTA, Wikipedia mentions :"high-profile crimes on or near MARTA have created the impression with some that MARTA is unsafe and lacks a strong police presence, even though it has its own police department.[76] From 2005 to 2008, two homicides and one rape were reported on MARTA property. The most common crime reported was larceny. The most common area for crime was MARTA's rail service, followed by MARTA's parking lots. For fiscal year 2008, MARTA had a crime rate of 2.61 per 1000 riders (0.261%)."
So you're misinformed about that too. But don't worry about facts, you know you're right.
Gun nuts... gah.