New Labour - Playing on fear of pedophiles.

The home secretary will today outline plans to increase protection for children surfing the web, including new jail terms for convicted paedophiles who use social networking websites.

The measures, which mirror systems operating in the US, include a requirement for convicted sex offenders to give their email address to the police. If they use that address to sign up to a website such as MySpace, Bebo or Facebook, they could be imprisoned for up to five years.

Right so lets see. So they don't have to do anything wrong and leaving a message for someone o Facebook can get them upto five years. Typical New Labour no need to show that they actually did something wrong? Just bang them up.

Despite the fact that they show two sides to crime control: First place authoritarian laws that oppress and play on peoples fear, secondly they allow criminals out of prison early to commit more crimes.

Of course this is New Labour's new "Cool Britannia" you don't actually have to have done anything wrong, hell no this is all about gimmicks, image, spin and hype(along with some useful TV coverage). After all this is the same bunch of cocks who plan to give us all ID cards and treat us all like criminals, whilst locking up "suspects" for 42 days.

Oh but I love this bit:

The restriction will apply to more than 30,000 people who have been added to the sex offenders' register since its inception in 1997. However, questions have been asked about how this will work in practice, as anyone can create new email identities in a few minutes.

Indeed, quite how New Labour plan to enforce this I do not know. Maybe another bit of piss poor, badly planned, badly thought out legislation when this law falls on its arse. After all its never stopped them doing it before.

A spokesman for the Home Office said that failure to declare any new email accounts would be considered a criminal offence, but admitted that police would ultimately rely on members of the public to tell them of unlawful actions.

Ah, so that is how they are going to get it to work. It requires people to snitch on a nonce. But wait who could have had a say in thinking up such poorly thought out ideas? Oh and add a catch all of making suspects declare all their e-mails.

The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, said: "We have some of the strictest controls on sex offenders in the world to protect our children. We are working together with police, industry and charities to create a hostile environment for sex offenders on the internet, and are determined to make it as hard for predators to strike online as in the real world."

The question has now just been answered as to who could have thought up such a fucking piss poor idea. The same retard who thinks that Islamic terrorists should be referred to people "engaging in anti-Islamic activity."

Still bless her at least she go's for a Kebab like the rest of us. Although she has members of the plod in tow to keep her safe... And without meaning to be rude, okay not really fuck it I am getting bitchy here. Jacqui Smith is of a certain age when she will be finding it harder to shift the weight so should really be laying off the kebabs...

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