Posts Tagged ‘Counter-Terrorism Act 2015’
Prevent – Preventing Free Thought and Freedom of Speech
Yet another example under the Prevent ‘anti-terrorism’ programme of how a school student whose only crime is supporting the Palestinians is hauled in to face an interview with the counter-terrorist police. Can there be any doubt that Prevent has nothing to do with ‘terrorism’ and everything to do with creating a climate of fear in…
Read MorePrevent – A Police State-in-the-making – Welcome to 1984
Muslims at prayer – all natural suspects The Prevent Duty, introduced by the Counter Terrorism Act 2015 puts the previous Prevent programme on a statutory footing. Now doctors, health workers, teachers, local authority workers and any other public worker is under a duty to monitor those they encounter for ‘extremism’ and inform on them. It…
Read MoreReport on PSC AGM 2016
PSC Executive – Conservative and Fearful of Its Own Shadow Despite nominally opposing Prevent, PSC Executive opposed affiliating to the Together Against Prevent group Below is a report on PSC AGM by Gerry Downing. It is fine as it goes but fails to draw out many of the political conclusions from this year’s event. I…
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