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Winner: The Public Be Damned
The Winner of the 2007 Weirdest Story of the Year Award
This story from January 2007 was voted by Premium subscribers as the weirdest story of the year -- by a large margin:
The Public be Damned
Two convicted murderers are among 13 escapees from a prison in Sudbury, Derbyshire, England, in recent months. But most of the men, including the murderers, are still at large because police won't release their photos, since that could breach their human rights. "When making a decision to release any photograph, police forces must take into account numerous factors including the public interest test," lectured a police spokesman, "whether there is a strong local policing purpose and, of course, the Human Rights and Data Protection Acts." So now what? The spokesman said by escaping, the felons "abuse the trust we have placed in them," and "it's up to us to trace their whereabouts." (PA) ...While it's up to the public to worry about how the police abuse the trust we have placed in them.
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- This is the natural consequence of the silliness that is ZT, PC, etc. The privacy rights of someone publicly convicted of serious crime(s) and fleeing justice take precedent over the rights of the general public to be secure. I find it ironic that many of the drug-crazed hippies of the 60s have become what they most opposed -- "The Establishment". --Craig, Minnesota
- The stories were all wonderfully and fearfully weird -- but I chose this one because it seemed to me to be not only the most foolish, but to endanger the greatest number of people. What about the "human rights" already expunged by murder, and the "human rights" of all the possible future victims? Don't you just hate it when you fail to recognize someone? --Peggy, Tennessee
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Who is protecting whom from what?
Reminds me of something similar here in USA: Homeland Defense/Security. Citizens having telephone and internet use monitored without search warrants on the off chance that a terrorist or two might be caught that way, is to protect *our* security? And there is no end in sight to the long lines to board the airplanes, while there is little or no security for those with direct access -- like baggage handlers, catering trucks, aircraft workers, janitors, flight attendants and pilots, the guys who sweep the runways . . . (ad infinitem)
Sanity and uncommon good sense seem to have gone the way of the Dodo.
Posted by: LD, Ohio | December 25, 2007 12:16 PM