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Ban Sale of Mini Mobiles, Says Justice Minister (cnet.com)
Online retail companies should ban the sale of mini mobile phones designed to be smuggled into prisons, said justice secretary David Lidington on Monday. From a report: Often marketed as "Beat the Boss phones", the tiny feature phones can be bought for around $25 to $40 online on sites including Amazon, Ebay and Gumtree. On the inside, they can change hands for up to $670. The phones, which can be as small as lipsticks, are popular with prison inmates due to their discreet size and lack of metal, which allows them to beat metal detectors. Mobile phones are banned in prisons, in part because they allow inmates to continue criminal activities while they're locked up. But around 20,000 phones and SIM cards were seized by prison guards in 2016, with mini mobiles making up around a third of these.
This is about the UK, which has a per-capita incarceration rate 10-20% that of the USA. Though it was subject to the same "tough on crime" trends in the 1990s as the US, unfortunately, so the rate is 50-60% higher than it should be.
The worst and most evil abuse of process is SELECTIVE PROSECUTION- ie a society where almost everything is illegal, but only the targets of the government are actually arrested and prosecuted. A common third world dictator tactic.
So, in France, they tried to make VIEWING 'terrorist' videos 'illegal' so any muslim the french wanted to take out could be imprisoned for having viewed material that would never get a 'white' 'christian' or 'jew' arrested. The French Supreme Court just ruled this law a "fundamental abuse of process".
What the demonic blairite filth that run Britain want is the right to arrest and prosecute anyone in possesion of a small phone- but ONLY people connected to the target group would be so treated. Ie., families of imprisoned muslims.
Britain is now the land of selective prosecution. White middle-class males are target for 'rape' trials, for example, when they have affairs at university. One such trial collapsed (after two years) when it was revealed the the CROWN had hidden evidnece that PROVED the women's claim of rape was totally false. Next year they'll pass new laws making the hiding of such evidence LEGAL (the woman's texts where she happily admited sex was consensual, and that she had a desire for 'violent' sex were purposely described as 'PRIVATE' and thus inappropriate to give to the defense).
The BBC runs output day and night stating that every white male is a rapist, and that every british child an obsese horror. If Orwell were alive today, he'd immediately put a gun to his head. In a land where inflation is out of control and wages collapsing, the BBC states that 'cheap' supermarket food is a SIN (British food prices are actually some of the highest in the world). No-one that doesn't live in the UK could comprehend just how insane things have become there since Blair's time.