Striking the Balance

[Ian G Batten]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, David Hansen wrote:
> > An A to Z of London (or any other major city) contains "information
> > of use to terrorists". Making possession of that an offence is
> > stupid
> 
> It is stupid, which is why the Westminster parliament has made it
> illegal.

Hearing all the crap about why it's important to preserve old buffers
trooping through doors as the means of voting shows how pathetic the
typical MP is: as soon as they arrive at Westminister they go native,
and believe that being an MP is an end in itself.

> >http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00011--g.htm#58
> >
> >58. - (1) A person commits an offence if- 
> >(a) he collects or makes a record of information of a kind likely to
> >be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, or
> > (b) he possesses a document or record containing information of that
> > kind. 
> 
> You couldn't make this sort of stupidity up. And some wonder why we
> hold the rogues in Westminster in such low esteem.

I'd best stop keeping station locations on my GPS box, so I can find
them easily when I'm in London.

ian