Little Hitler Jobsworths Get a Boot

One little blow has been dealt to those in the town halls up and down the country, those who have been perving off on their misuse of the terrorism acts to snoop on people, to see whether their dogs have been fouling the pavements, or god forbid their bins are out on the wrong day "Hot" Jacqui Smith, who lives in the broom cupboard at he sister's, has said she's going to rein in the coincils and stop them using terrorism powers to check up on overdue library books.

You can sense that maybe the convention on modern liberty that took place over a month ago, may be bearing some fruit. But we need to push these people all the way, they'll never willingly give up any of their creepy big brother powers.

How these people in the local councils thought it was acceptable that they sit outside people's house taking photos of bins, dogs and children and generally wanking off, fantasising they were Jack Bauer, I find difficult to understand.

In one of the worst examples a family was spied upon by the council in Poole to check whether they were in the right school catchment area.

But one should be aware that, as soon as a lot of these little jobsworths are given powers such as these, relatively petty though they are, they start to be corupted almost immediately and begin to misuse them. A lot of these people cannot be trusted; a whiff of power and they're pulling on the shiny jack boots, saluting big flags and marching around very stiff-leggedly.

Anyway the general rule here is Mission Creeps. Give a creep a bit of power and they will find a mission to misuse it on.

The Liberal Democrat's under a freedom of information request found that in five years local councils had used these powers 10,333 times in 5 years, all of which resulted in 9% leading to prosecutions. Which probably means that say 9,000 times they were wrong. 9,000 times they felt it necessary to intrude upon, spy upon and mess around with somebody's life.

This is totally unacceptable.