Conservative want higher sentences for failure to decrypt child pornography

[Owen Lewis]

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Clayton <richard@highwayman.com>
To: <UKcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: 18 September 2002 17:33
Subject: Conservative want higher sentences for failure to decrypt child
pornography


>     http://www.conservatives.com/pdf/sexoffenders0902.pdf
>
>
> *   they want the paedophile "register" to be centralised and made
>     available online -- given the public sector's record on such
>     projects that should stop it working altogether :-(
>
> *   they not only want an anti-grooming criminal law (hard to write
>     without creating a thought-crime) but also a civil anti-grooming
>     injunction.
>
> *   they want compulsory use of psychometric tests for those who will
>     work in childrens' homes and boarding schools (these are pen and
>     paper tests and if you get the answers "wrong" you don't get the
>     job) -- they admit that they might exclude people who are not
>     paedophiles but "better to be safe than sorry"
>
> *   and last of all they want a task force to look into the feasability
>     of "satellite tracking" of paedophiles.
>
> So it's all about high tech wizardry and assuming that crimes are
> committed by people you've caught once already.  Hmmm

I find it truly sad to observe just how low a once great political party has
fallen. One would be tempted to say it was in its death throes but its
condition is scarcely worse than once was Labour's (c. 1978 - 82).

Who is the more to blame? The politicians, for prostituting such better
instincts they have - or the generally base instincts of the public to which
they now seek so desperately to pander?

In mobocracy, those who hold power can, for a while, ignore the call of the
mob. Often, that 'while' is sufficient for the mob to lose its focus  and
switch its agitation in some other direction. Those who seek power often
believe that they must first pander to the mob on every occasion.


Owen