The idea
Here are a mixture of suggestions for laws to abolish and ideas to help sort out our society. I know that they may sound as if I am ranting on but I am just horrified at the mindless way in which our country has been run for many years. Here goes :-
CCTV - Abolish the law that allows the unjustified mass surveillance of innocent people by CCTV so that we can be free again. That includes all police, council, NHS and privately held CCTV as well as those in and on buses and trains. CCTV cameras are one of the most anti-social forms of behaviour that I can think of yet there is no one to whom we can turn to for protection. I am sick and tired of being treated like a criminal!
ANPR - Abolish the ANPR CCTV system on our roads for the same reason as above.
Surveillance - Abolish all laws which permit unwarranted surveillance of any kind and, guarantee the privacy of all communications. Stop spying on us!
Digital Economy Bill - Repeal the Digital Economy Bill.
DNA - Abolish the law that allows the DNA & fingerprints of innocent people to be held.
RIPA – RIPA must go!
ASBOs - ASBOs must go too. Laws to deal with troublesome people have existed for years. There never was any need for ASBOs.
Terrorism Act - Most of the Terrorism Act should be reviewed and abolished too.
Vetting – Scrap all of the ridiculous laws which prevent normal human activity and make people afraid to so much as look at children.
Body Scanners - Ban the use of body scanners in airpots. They go far beyond what is acceptable.
Databases - Ban all databases which are held without the explicit consent of the individual and introduce a £10,000 fine against database owners payable to every person whose data is lost or misused and payable on every occasion when this happens.
Privacy – Privacy is not a crime and must not be viewed as being suspicious!
Alcohol – The alcohol problem can easily be reduced. Here are a few guidelines. Drunk people don't get served. People are encouraged to sit down in pubs and clubs. If people make too much noise or are rowdy they are asked to leave. Being intoxicated, disturbing the peace, aggressive behaviour e.t.c. is made as antisocial as drink driving by encouragement and enforcement. Reduce the number of licensed premises and significantly reduce the strength of alcoholic drinks. Alcohol from off licenses and supermarkets should only be sold in cartons. This would eradicate the problem of broken glass and the injuries that causes.
Drugs – Making drugs illegal has, and never will, make the problem go away. It is a huge waste of police time, makes people who shouldn't be criminals into criminals and, costs a fortune in lawyers' fees, court time and prison sentences. You will never stop people from taking drugs by banning them but, you can massively improve the lives of those who do take them and of those affected by their actions. Make all drugs legal and at a stroke you will almost completely eliminate the crime associated with drugs but, you must keep illicit drug dealing as a serious offence. Sell drugs at properly controlled outlets and the problem of contamination will also be eliminated. Use the money raised from the sales to pay for rehabilitation services for those who want it and for treatment for those who need it. You will always have people who take drugs and who harm themselves by doing so. That is their choice whether we like it or not but, the current system of penalising drug users is not working. Listen to the experts who tell you that a different approach is needed and act on their advice. Legalising drugs may not be popular at first but once people see it working they will approve of it and, you will save the country billions into the bargain.
Education – Leave the education system to the experts. Get rid of all the stressful tests and league tables. For goodness sake let children enjoy themselves a little. It does not matter if our school results are not better than those of other countries. We should be aiming at producing happy, well-rounded citizens not stressed out workaholics.
Population Control - Gently motivate people to have fewer children e.g. by tax incentives and, at the same time reduce immigration. There are far too many people in our little country for us to all live comfortably. We don't need more and more houses or to produce more and more energy. We simply need fewer people.
The Banks – Sort out the greedy bankers. We are paying for their mistakes and they are still giving themselves huge bonuses. Get rid of the lot of them. Most of the people walking in the streets could do a better job than they have done. Let the bankers go work somewhere else. We'll manage fine without them.
Doing all of the above would be a start to reversing the damage done to our society by the last appalling government but there would still be a very long way to go. I apologise for ranting on but I am very upset at what the last government has done to our country especially to our liberties.
Why is it important?
I would like to be able to live as a normal human being again and not to be continually treated with distrust and suspicion as if I am a suspect. I am an adult and I am perfectly capable of managing my own life and I want the government to stop interfering. Basically I want to live in Great Britain not Great Prison!