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Sponsor |  ntltrmllgnc | May 9, 8:05am | Man Arrested, Put In DNA Database For Allegedly Dropping Apple Core
Editorial Comment: Ok folks. I tend make jokes out of cynicsm/frustration but this is serious.
Can we truly convince ourselves that when we are DNA'ing for ALLEGED LITTERING, that our children's DNA isn't going into a total awareness database?
We need to be asking:
Does the DNA'ing for dropping apples imply that there is now a policy of arrest = DNA?
I don't care if it's in the UK. How about Bergen County, NJ chipping its cops?
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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Friday, May 9, 2008
A man with a heart condition was arrested, shackled, put in a DNA database, locked up for 18 hours and taken to court after police claim he dropped an apple core in the latest shocking example of enviro-tyranny being metered out by a cadre of brownshirt "community support officers" that now patrol British cities harassing citizens.
Under the pretext of ninnying pointless enviro-crime laws, thug enforcers have been given the power to micromanage our lives and get as many people in the system as possible, while creating a chilling climate and, allied with the millions of surveillance cameras trained on us, a sense that every single aspect of our behavior is under close scrutiny.
Our tax money - the amount of which we hand over increases year upon year - pays for police to hunt down and prosecute completely innocent people for allegedly dropping items of food while violent crime soars and people are afraid to walk the streets. What is wrong with this picture?
"Keith Hirst, 54, was approached by a police community support officer who claimed he had dropped the core on a street in Salford, Greater Manchester," reports the Daily Mail.
Mr Hirst insisted he had not, and went into a chemist to buy medication for his disabled wife.
"I came out and started walking towards a chemist to get my wife a prescription. I got a tap on the shoulder and turned round," said Hirst.
"There was a chap there in a fluorescent jacket, big sunglasses, and a baseball cap, on a bike, with a wad of tickets and a pen. He said `why did you drop that apple core?', and I told him I didn't drop an apple core.
"He then said he wanted my name and address. He was an over-zealous young lad baying to give me a ticket.
"I told him I was on my way to the shops but would be walking back that way if he wanted to speak to me later.
He followed through the precinct to the chemist.
Mr Hirst added: "When I came out there were five police officers surrounding me. I said I had done nothing wrong and so was not telling them who I was. The most senior police officer said they would have to take me into custody."
He was taken into custody at Swinton police station, where he had his DNA and fingerprints taken. The following day he was handcuffed to a security guard and taken to court.
Police were unrepentant about this asinine waste of taxpayer's money.
"Officers are expected challenge anyone seen littering and have powers to deal with this on the street. We work closely with the City Council and other partners and take a firm stance against all environmental crime," Superintendent Ian Palmer said.
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Keith Hirst -- arrested, put in a DNA database, locked up for 18 hours, taken to court after police claim he dropped an apple core.
Last month in the northern town of Hull, a mother accidentally dropped a small piece of a sausage roll that she was feeding to her young daughter. Pigeons immediately swooped to gobble up the morsel but that didn't stop two officials from the local "environmental crimes unit" pursuing Sarah Davies down the street and threatening to arrest her for refusing to provide her name.
"I crossed the road and was approached by two men. I thought they were canvassers because they were dressed in tracksuit bottoms," said Davies, who was subsequently fined £75.
"But one came up to me, said he was from the council and said I was going to be fined for dropping litter."
"He wasn't polite at all - he was rude, and I began to walk away.
"He then said I would be arrested if I didn't give him my name and details and started reading me my rights on the street.
"I felt really small and humiliated. I was treated like I was a criminal."
While gangs of marauding teenage yobs roam the streets and suburbs beating people to death as violent crime skyrockets, fluorescent-jacketed CSO's are busy writing tickets for people who flick cigarette ash out of their car windows and mothers whose children drop a morsel of pastry.
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Is it any wonder that Britons are leaving the country in a mass exodus? Sarah Davies and her daughter Chloe, pursued, harassed and fined by "environmental crime" thugs for dropping a morsel of sausage roll.
Indeed, from the descriptions of the "environmental crime officers" it seems that these same hooligans are being hired by the government to bully innocent people in a Clockwork Orange style police state ploy.
Since these goons are paid bonuses for the more people they harass, its much easier to loiter around city centers and pounce on anyone that dares accidentally drop a crumb of biodegradable food than target real problems - mass fly-tippers or people pouring crap into rivers and streams.
Father of four Gareth Corkhill was ordered to pay an on the spot fine of £210 - a week's wages - after the local council's bin police, who visited him wearing stab-proof vests and carrying photographic evidence of his crime, saw that his bin lid was four inches ajar.
He was also told to pay a £15 victim surcharge to help "victims of violence" - despite there being no victim of his deadly act of terrorism - and threatened with prison if he failed to pay. Rapists, murderers and other violent criminals who have earned a jail sentence rather than a fine are immune from the penalty.
Corkhill was taken to court and convicted, earning him a criminal record.
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Four inches too far: Gareth Corkhill with wife Claire and son Josh.
The three examples cited in this article are just a drop in the ocean compared to similar cases that are reported on an almost daily basis.
These kind of insane policies are contributing to the mass exodus of Britons who are leaving the UK in record numbers as immigration chokes public services while scum are left alone and police are ordered to target law-abiding citizens.
Comments by UK citizens in response to these articles posted on newspaper websites are openly talking of there "needing to be a revolution" in the country in a desperate attempt to restore common sense to policing and law enforcement and prevent the country from fully sinking into a nightmare control freak fascist surveillance society.
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Sponsor | | Journey | May 9, 8:12am | | I said I had done nothing wrong and so was not telling them who I was |
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Sponsor | | ntltrmllgnc | May 9, 9:06am | 2: Some Brits still have balls.
He then got DNA'd. That's plenty of "who I was" right there. |
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Sponsor | | tigerdragonbrand | May 9, 9:18am | First there is a mountain
Then there is no mountain
Then there is |
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Sponsor | | Journey | May 9, 9:39am | Enough shovels of dirt and there is a mountain...
Enough buckets of water and there is a river....
....sorry... thought we were doing proverbs....
2: Sounds like he was arrested for resisting to me.... |
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Sponsor | | tigerdragonbrand | May 9, 9:52am | Caterpillar sheds his skin to find a butterfly within.
Caterpillar sheds his skin to find a butterfly within. |
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Sponsor | | ntltrmllgnc | May 9, 9:55am | 6: "Sounds like he was arrested for resisting to me"
Arrested for resisting? You get the silver fnord prize. That is all you read.
Arrested for resisting, christ.
This just in - man convicted of refusing to confess. woman loses driver's license because she walks to the store.
And then he got DNA'd for being a litter terrorist. Does that mean he was terrorizing the litter? |
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Sponsor | | Journey | May 9, 10:05am | | 8: I get a prize? Awesome. I love prizes.... cracker jack. |
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Sponsor | | tigerdragonbrand | May 9, 10:23am | Well look here: (Emphasis MINE)
PS:(EDIT) NO MENTION OF DNA'D, either...hmmmmm
Apple core lands man in jail
* Press Association
* guardian.co.uk,
* Friday May 9 2008
* Article history
This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Friday May 09 2008. It was last updated at 15:47 on May 09 2008.
A man spent a night in a police cell after being arrested for dropping an apple core, it was revealed today.
A police community support officer attempted to issue Keith Hirst with a £50 fixed penalty notice, but he refused to give his name and address.
The officer then called for help from a police officer, who arrested Hirst, 54, and took him to Swinton police station in Salford, Greater Manchester.
The incident took place on April 21 as Hirst was leaving a post office.
He was charged with littering and obstructing an officer, which he denied, and was held in custody until he appeared at Salford magistrates court the following day.
The case was adjourned until a further hearing on April 29, when both charges were dismissed.
Superintendent Ian Palmer, of Greater Manchester police, said: "Littering is an offence and GMP work tirelessly to ensure the streets are not only safe but also clean.
"Officers are expected to challenge anyone seen littering and have powers to deal with this on the street.
"It is regrettable that this incident has now been passed to the courts, but it has been done so due to the fact this man repeatedly refused to cooperate with police.
"The matter could have been resolved if the man had given officers his details, he would also have been provided with the opportunity to challenge the fixed penalty notice if he felt that it was unfair.
"We work closely with the city council and other partners and take a firm stance against all environmental crime."
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