From: Albert Ross on
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:05:15 +0100, Alan Clifford
<sardines(a)purse-seine.net> wrote:


>I have no actual problem with being stopped if there is reason to suspect
>that I am a terrorist. Carrying a camera and taking a photograph is not a
>vaild reason and if this is being used under section 43 "A constable may
>stop and search a person whom he reasonably suspects to be a terrorist to
>discover whether he has in his possession anything which may constitute
>evidence that he is a terrorist" then the police are wasting money and
>resources.
>
>If the stops do not produce actual terrorists, then the paramaters for
>doing the stops are incorrect and a waste of public money.

A friend used to be stopped routinely on his way to the Old Bailey.
Often the same Police would stop him on the way back too.

He was actually a barrister. His crime was being black. This was back
in the days of the IRA.

I could be wrong but I don't believe the IRA ever employed any black
people.