Vetting 'threatens scout events'

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New anti-paedophile vetting rules will threaten the 90-year tradition of Scout Jamborees, the Scout Association says.

It has warned that major gatherings of packs from around the world may be cancelled due to the introduction of the scheme.

Under the controversial rules anyone working or volunteering with children must register for background checks.

But organising checks on thousands of foreign Scout leaders was "just not possible", a spokesman said.

That's what happens when you make stupid laws.

Defenders of our MPs, particularly in the light of the expenses scandal, repeatedly tell us how hard our MPs work. Unfortunately, this is the sort of shit they're hard at work producing.

(Why) Are The Tories Just Another Bunch Of Lying Shitbags?

Iain Dale thinks everything's going to be OK with the Tories with regard to the Independent Safeguarding Authority. Strikes me he's being incredibly naive. Full quote from his blog here:

Grayling: Abolition of the ISA Is An Option
Iain Dale 12:31 PM

Following on from the last post I have just had a lengthy conversation about the ISA with Chris Grayling. I asked him why he hadn't committed the party to outright abolition of this scheme and I have to say I was reassured by the answer. Apparently James Brokenshire from his Shadow Home Affairs team and Maria Miller, the Shadow Children's Minister have been working on a review of this scheme for some time. They are looking at several options, and outright abolition is indeed one of them. Chris said: "We are considering all options, including abolition." He understandably didn't want to pre-empt their conclusions in his article.

Chris was also at pains to point out that the government has gone totally overboard in 'gold plating' the implementation of the legislation. Wasn't it always thus? The key, if abolition is the way forward, is to then work out a way forward which achieves the aim of protecting children - so far as is possible - but doesn't create an administrative nightmare or an overpowering state.

I've never had close up dealings with politicians the way Dale has but even I smell the stink of hypocrisy. This is full of typical political pussy-footing: 'working on a review', 'considering all options', criticising the government for 'having gone too far', etc. Then the killer of the final sentence, which assumes that such extra legislation is actually necessary. We all know the only proper option is complete abolition.

I hope to be proved wrong, but I suspect the Tories will make a bit of noise about the ISA but either quietly let it continue or simply 'modify' some of its components.

I don't think they've got either the courage or the intelligence to wipe it from the face of the earth, together with ContactPoint and all the other repressive legislation instituted by New Labour.

Independent Rebellion Authority Official Beware

Now that news of the Independent Safeguarding Authority is making it into the MSN, people are starting to get angry. At long last they are beginning to understand what Stalinist control freaks New Labour really are.

This new piece of legislation now makes the assumption that anyone working with or coming into contact with children is a paedophile and needs to be vetted (and charged for the privilege).

Details of what constitues 'controlled' and 'regulated' activities (the terminology says everything, doesn't it?) can be found on the ISA website of via our Scribd site.

As can this curiosity, A Letter to Posterity, by author Dennis Wheatley. There's a lesson for us all in the following paragraph:

It will be immensely difficult to break the stranglehold of the machine, but it can be done, little by little; the first step being the formation of secret groups of friends for free discussion. Then numbers of people can begin systematically to break small regulations, and so to larger ones with passive resistance by groups of people pledged to stand together – and eventually the boycotting, or ambushing and killing of unjust tyrannous officials.

Beatrix Bunny Campbell Fascist

Courtesy of Old Holborn:

OK Beatrix, I am not going to get into a longwinded rant about the assumption of guilt before innocence, the tardy "if you've nothing to hide" argument, the idiocy of your argument that CCTV is good for the "collective safety" or that having your details on a State computer is a "minor interruption of an adult's privacy".
Instead, I am going to show you that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Consider yourself a fully paid up member of every Islamic Extremist organisation in the world. I have just put your name and email address on their mailing lists. You are also now a member of the BNP AND Respect. I have signed you up. You will shortly find your name and photo on Gaydar. You have joined Pro Palestinian and Pro Zionist organisations. You are now a member of the friends of Huntingdon Life Sciences AND an eco warrier. Your email address is the weapon I shall be using against you on the big wide Internet. The one that is closely monitored by the ever so nice State.
Don't worry, you have nothing to fear, do you?

And what has the delightful Ms Campbell done to fire up his ire so much?

Talking a load of leftwing fascist bollocks about the vetting of authors under the govt's new 'we must protect the children' database, the Independent Safeguarding Authority, that's what.

Beatrix Campbell: erstwhile communist, Witchfinder-General of Non-Existent Child Abuse, and fucktard.

All British Authors Are Paedophiles

...or so the government thinks, since it's finally instituted the Independent Safeguarding Authority.

This requires every author visiting a school to have their name placed on a database, to be vetted for suitability and to pay £65 for the privilege. Schools not complying with these requrements will be fined.

And, like all the other database shit set up by this governemnt, allegations will remain on the database even when proved to be untrue.

Philip Pullman and other notable children's authors, are refusing to sign up:

Mr Pullman, who stressed he had a "non-existent" criminal record, said he was prepared to give up speaking in schools to make a stand against Britain's creeping surveillance culture.

He said: "It is insulting and I think unnecessary, and I refuse to be complicit in any scheme that assumes my guilt."

Mr Pullman is being supported by several other children's authors including Anne Fine, Anthony Horowitz, Michael Morpurgo and Guentin Blake, who object to their names being on the database.

If the police involved in the Huntley murder case back in 2002 had done their job properly - and with the information they already had - then this ridiculous, draconian system would not have been set up.