This & that

[juliet]

The Home Office now stopping people in the street on the basis of their race (& note also that they want to stop benefits/housing for failed asylum seekers with small kids, as well. So we're getting rid of them by starving their children, are we? Fantastic).

And a less depressing link:
the Underground turned upside-down (picked this up off someone else a couple of weeks ago).

Hunt Bill being discussed today. Thumbs crossed...

Interesting site showing current US voting polls - bit depressing atm, though.

I don't think I have any US readers who are currently overseas, or indeed any US readers at all, but just in case: register online for overseas/absentee ballot.

Comments

[ergotia.livejournal.com]

See my posts in response to beingjdc, and you could try Amnesty International's website. In any event Juliet's original post is about people who in the majority of case in London at least will be Black UK citizens or visitors here entirely legal being stopped and questioned on the basis of skin colour alone - do you not think that is a human rights issue?

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

That isn't actually the question, the question would be whether there's a higher probability of someone non-white than white being an illegal immigrant. The answer might well be the same. To judge it, dunno, is it ageist or discriminatory against young-looking people that the truancy squad have the right to stop people who look like they are of school age and ask why they aren't in school?

[kitty-goth.livejournal.com]

I dunno, ask Marna.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

That's who I was thinking of. I suppose if it is a problem they could just stop a certain quota of pensioners, just in case.

[kitty-goth.livejournal.com]

Chavs are more likely to take drugs, and to take them in such a way that they are likely to cause a nuisance to society.

Does that justify the extreme step of just rounding up Burberry and forcibly blood-testing them?