Category Archives: Civil Liberties

Gordon Brown & Jackie Smith: fingerprint bounty

April 6, 2008 – 7:23 am

NO2ID and Privacy international have issued a £1000 bounty for anyone who can legally obtain the fingerprints of Gordon Brown and those of his typist/Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
The stunt was inspired by the publication in Germany of the fingerprints of their Interior Minister.
The Government is pedalling the idea that retinas & fingerprints are a biometric […]

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Government to repeal ban on protests around Parliament

April 1, 2008 – 5:08 pm

[This isn’t an April Fools joke! Thank fuck]
It looks as though the NoLongerNeoLabourHonest government of Gordon Brown is going to allow protests around Parliament (PDF of proposal). These were banned by the Dear Leader after Iraq war protests. The protests outside Parliament demoralised the NeoLabour sheep within and it made it harder for the Whips […]

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A *real* bill of rights - circumventing the Executive

March 9, 2008 – 7:00 pm

Henry Porter at the Observer has written a magnificent piece on the government’s castration of rights and liberties. Some of his insights that Geeklawyer thought were his alone:
Parliamentary democracy is a sham: the Executive pwns Parliament because of whipping and candidate selection by parties.
A genuine bill of rights could be embedded in an unwritten or […]

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