Archive for July, 2010

Noisy Demo at EDO MBM

Every Wednesday at 1600 – 1800 outside the EDO factory in Brighton.

EDO are a large US defence contractor and amongst other things make bomb release mechanisms for aircraft. Their technology has and is used on British and American Combat aircraft engaged in Iraq and more recently Afghanistan.. The demo takes place outside the factory at Home Farm Road, Mouslecoomb, Brighton.

Website:: www.smashedo.org.uk

In many of todays papers it has been reported that the Government is to give teachers new powers to enable them to use force against unruly pupils and also give them extended search powers.

Another ploy.

Teachers already have the power to use force IN school. Its is everyones Common Law right to use force to protect themselves others and property. The Education Act mentions teachers using force including restrictive and pain compliance techniques in exceptional circumstances.

Teachers have greater powers of search than Security Officers and can search without parental consent and without the individuals consent if the believe weapons are being carried or concealed.

In all of this Article 2 of the Human Rights Act provides that there is a positive obligation to preserve life so by not defending themselves others and property and using their powers of search they could be in breach of the Human Rights Act.

Teachers won’t exercise these rights as they have not had training. The buck stops with the Education Minister and Local Education Authorities as they should tell schools to provide training for staff. This is a fundamental part of Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (employers must provide information training and supervision)

In deciding whether to train or not its a simple question that has to be answered. Is it reasonably foreseeable that at some stage teachers are going to be victims of violence (threatened abused or assaulted in circumstances relating to their work) the answer has to be yes. Training must be given to reduce risk.

Ironically teachers are not trained due to the belief that they cannot restrain or indeed use pain on children. But the payouts for injuries and law suits that local authorities face for NOT protecting the Health Safety and Welfare of Teachers far surpass the cost of training. Sent via BlackBerry® from BT

Novartis in Southampton and Horsham are linked to Huntingdon Life Sciences, the largest contract vivisection lab in Europe. As a consequence demonstrations take place on Tuesdays and Fridays at varying times outside Novartis who do work on behalf of HLS.

For any security information both personal and Corporate, regarding these demos please call us. Sent via BlackBerry® from BT

The Government has announced that £150m has to be saved. £87m of that has been wiped from the Counter Terror budget. Units around the Country will lose £62m.

This is a frightening turn. I’m sure the budget has been cut because there is little or no activity of a terrorist nature that is making the news and therefore what do they need all the money for? The reality is that there has been little in the news BECAUSE of the money. We don’t what attacks every week in the way that Pakistan does at the moment but we could well see more with the axing of 25% of the CT budget. Sent via BlackBerry® from BT

The European Court of Human Rights has rejected the UKs application to appeal its decision in a recent finding that Stop and Search powers used as part of Counter Terror legislation breached Human Rights.

The European Court held in Jan 10 that sect 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 violates Article 8 of the Human Rights Act (right to privacy and family life)

This ruling which is now absolute has thrown Stop and Search into disarray and the Home Secretary has ordered an urgent review of the powers. Sent via BlackBerry® from BT