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Government Abuse
#51
Since 9/11, the Government’s Answer to Every Problem Has Been More Government

By John W. Whitehead
Quote:“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.”—Anonymous
Have you noticed that the government’s answer to every problem is more government—at taxpayer expense—and less individual liberty?
The Great Depression. The World Wars. The 9/11 terror attacks. The COVID-19 pandemic.
Every crisis—manufactured or otherwise—since the nation’s early beginnings has become a make-work opportunity for the government to expand its reach and its power at taxpayer expense while limiting our freedoms at every turn.
Indeed, the history of the United States is a testament to the old adage that liberty decreases as government (and government bureaucracy) grows. To put it another way, as government expands, liberty contracts.

To the police state, this COVID-19 pandemic has been a huge boon, like winning the biggest jackpot in the lottery. Certainly, it will prove to be a windfall for those who profit from government expenditures and expansions.
Given the rate at which the government has been devising new ways to spend our money and establish itself as the “solution” to all of our worldly problems, this current crisis will most likely end up ushering in the largest expansion of government power since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
This is how the emergency state operates, after all.
From 9/11 to COVID-19, “we the people” have acted the part of the helpless, gullible victims desperately in need of the government to save us from whatever danger threatens. In turn, the government has been all too accommodating and eager while also expanding its power and authority in the so-called name of national security.
As chief correspondent Dan Balz asks for The Washington Post, “Government is everywhere now. Where does it go next?
When it comes to the power players that call the shots, there is no end to their voracious appetite for more: more money, more power, more control.
This expansion of government power is also increasing our federal debt in unprecedented leaps and bounds. Yet the government isn’t just borrowing outrageous amounts of money to keep the country afloat. It’s also borrowing indecent sums to pay for programs it can’t afford.
The government’s primary response to this COVID-19 pandemic—flooding the market with borrowed money in the amount of trillions of dollars for stimulus payments, unemployment insurance expansions, and loans to prop up small businesses and to keep big companies afloat—has pushed the country even deeper in debt.
By “the country,” I really mean the taxpayers. And by “the taxpayers,” it’s really future generations who will be shackled to debt loads they may never be able to pay back.
This is how you impoverish the future.
Democrats and Republicans alike have done this.
Without fail, every president within the last 50 years has expanded the nation’s debt. When President Trump took office on January 20, 2017, the national debt—the amount the federal government has borrowed over the years and must pay back—was a whopping $19.9 trillion. Despite Trump’s pledge to drain the swamp and eliminate the debt, the federal debt is now approaching $27 trillion and is on track to surpass $78 trillion by 2028.
For many years now, economists have warned that economic collapse would be inevitable if the national debt ever surpassed the size of the U.S. economy. The government passed that point in June 2020 and has yet to put the brakes on its spending.
In fact, the Federal Reserve just keeps printing more money in order to prop up the economy and float the debt.
At some point, something’s got to give.

As it now stands, the U.S. is among the most indebted countries in the world.
Almost a third of the $27 trillion national debt is owed to foreign entities such as Japan and China.
Most of the debt, however, is owed to the public.
How is this even possible? Essentially, it’s a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul.
First, the government requires taxpayers to pay a portion of their salaries to the Social Security Trust Fund. The government then turns around and borrows from Social Security to cover its spending needs. Then the government raises taxes or prints more money in order to pay out whatever is needed to the retirees.
It’s a form of convoluted economics that only makes sense to government bureaucrats looking to make a profit off the backs of the taxpayers.
According to the U.S. Debt Clock, each taxpayer’s share of the national debt is $214,000 and growing.
That’s almost five times more than the median income for what Americans earn in a year. That’s also almost five times more than the average American has in savings, across savings accounts, checking accounts, money market accounts, call deposit accounts, and prepaid cards. Almost 60% of Americans are so financially strapped that they don’t have even $500 in savings and nothing whatsoever put away for retirement.
Just the interest that must be paid on the national debt every year is $338 billion and growing. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the fastest growing item in the budget over the next decade will be interest on the debt.
As the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget reported in 2019, before COVID spending pushed the country over the fiscal cliff, “Interest payments will rise from $325 billion last year to $928 billion by 2029, a nearly threefold increase. If tax cuts and spending increases are extended, interest will exceed $1 trillion and set a new record as a share of the economy. The federal government will spend more on interest than on Medicaid or children by 2020. By 2024, interest will match defense spending.
Bottom line: The U.S. government—and that includes the current administration—is spending money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford, and “we the taxpayers” are the ones who will have to pay for it.
As financial analyst Kristin Tate explains, “When the government has its debt bill come due, all of us will be on the hook.”
Despite the tax burden “we the people” are made to bear, we have no real say in how the government runs, or how our taxpayer funds are used, but we’re being forced to pay through the nose, anyhow.
We have no real say, but that doesn’t prevent the government from fleecing us at every turn and forcing us to pay for endless wars that do more to fund the military industrial complex than protect us, pork barrel projects that produce little to nothing, and a police state that serves only to imprison us within its walls.

All the while the government continues to do whatever it wants—levy taxes, rack up debt, spend outrageously and irresponsibly—with little thought for the plight of its citizens.
This brings me to a curious point: what the future will look like ten years from now, when the federal debt is expected to surpass $78 trillion, an unsustainable level of debt that will result in unprecedented economic hardship for anyone that does not belong to the wealthy elite.
Interestingly enough, that timeline coincides with the government’s vision of the future as depicted in a Pentagon training video created by the Army for U.S. Special Operations Command.
According to the video, the government is anticipating trouble (read: civil unrest), which is code for anything that challenges the government’s authority, wealth and power, and is grooming its armed forces (including its heavily armed federal agents) accordingly to solve future domestic political and social problems.
The training video, titled “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,” is only five minutes long, but it provides a chilling glimpse of what the government expects the world to look like in 2030, a world bedeviled by “criminal networks,” “substandard infrastructure,” “religious and ethnic tensions,” “impoverishment, slums,” “open landfills, over-burdened sewers,” a “growing mass of unemployed,” and an urban landscape in which the prosperous economic elite must be protected from the impoverishment of the have nots.
And then comes the kicker.
Three-and-a-half minutes into the Pentagon’s dystopian vision of “a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes — brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers,” the ominous voice of the narrator speaks of a need to “drain the swamps.”
Drain the swamps.
Surely, we’ve heard that phrase before?
Ah yes.
Emblazoned on t-shirts and signs, shouted at rallies, and used as a rallying cry among Trump supporters, “drain the swamp” became one of Donald Trump’s most-used campaign slogans.
Far from draining the politically corrupt swamps of Washington DC of lobbyists and special interest groups, however, the Trump Administration has further mired us in a sweltering bog of corruption and self-serving tactics.
Funny how the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Now the government has adopted its own plans for swamp-draining, only it wants to use the military to drain the swamps of futuristic urban American cities of “noncombatants and engage the remaining adversaries in high intensity conflict within.”
And who are these noncombatants, a military term that refers to civilians who are not engaged in fighting during a war?
They are, according to the Pentagon, “adversaries.”
They are “threats.”


They are the “enemy.”
They are people who don’t support the government, people who live in fast-growing urban communities, people who may be less well-off economically than the government and corporate elite, people who engage in protests, people who are unemployed, people who engage in crime (in keeping with the government’s fast-growing, overly broad definition of what constitutes a crime).
In other words, in the eyes of the U.S. military, noncombatants are American citizens a.k.a. domestic extremists a.k.a. enemy combatants who must be identified, targeted, detained, contained and, if necessary, eliminated.
Funny how closely fact tracks fiction these days.
Just recently, in fact, I re-watched Escape from L.A., John Carpenter’s 1996 post-apocalyptic action film that imagines a future (2013, in fact) in which the United States has elected a president for life who runs the country according to his own theocratic moral law. Anyone who runs afoul of the president’s moral laws is stripped of their citizenship and either electrocuted or deported to the island of Los Angeles, a penal colony where lawlessness reigns supreme.
As the film’s opening narrator recounts:
Quote:In the late 20th century, hostile forces inside the United States grow strong. The city of Los Angeles is ravaged by crime and immorality. To protect and defend its citizens, the United States Police Force is formed. A presidential candidate predicts a millennium earthquake will destroy L.A. in divine retribution. The earthquake measuring 9.6 on the Richter scale hits at 12:59 P.M. August 23rd in the year 2000. After the devastation, the Constitution is amended, and the newly elected president accepts a lifetime term of office. The country’s capital is moved from Washington, D.C., to the president’s hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia. Los Angeles Island is declared no longer part of the United States and becomes the deportation point for all people found undesirable or unfit to live in the new, moral America. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped among the shorelines, making any escape from L.A. impossible. From the southeastern hills of Orange County to the northwestern shore of Malibu, the great wall excludes L.A. from the mainland. The president’s first act as permanent Commander in Chief is Directive 17: once an American loses his or her citizenship, they are deported to this island of the damned, and they never come back.
Carpenter is a brilliant filmmaker whose dystopian visions of the future are eerily prescient, but this film is particularly unnerving: environmental disasters; engineered viruses used like weapons to control the masses; riots and looting that leave the populace longing for law and order; religion used like a weapon; martial law; surveillance that keeps every citizen under the government’s watchful eye; and a growing awareness that the only path to freedom left for humanity is to shut down the government and start over again.
We’re almost there now.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, unless we make some effort to reject the sorry excuse for representative government that we have been saddled with, the future that awaits us—whether it’s the future envisioned by the Pentagon in its training video or the future imagined by Carpenter—will be a living nightmare from which there is no escape.
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#52
To understand how our leaders think and act once in places of power is to learn how they manage to climb the social ladders and once there, show their real persona, in the following talk it explains how they place themselves into positions of governance.

https://youtu.be/-1mgQJhDDC0
#53
Retired Nurse Blows The Whistle On Attempted Murder By Government Decree

https://www.thebernician.net/retired-uk-...nt-policy/
#54
The more I study things the more this guy is right, if we are going to remain with cell phone in hand and our labour exchange to be digital it won't take much more before we cannot do much on our own, algorithms are already ruling our energy.

https://youtu.be/ttH4-52xZgc
#55
Between 17 and 20 July 2020, the complete Rechtenforum.nl was taken down (that was the second forum where I have posted that has been taken off the internet after Forum.davidicke.com since the corona “pandemic” was started)...
I had posted most of the information in this thread in Dutch on Rechtenforum.nl: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...?f=8&t=715


On 11 August 2020, I claimed damages from Minister of Justice and Security in the Netherlands, Ferdinand Grapperhaus for more than half a million Euro.
That was after “my” attorney Vincent Rutgers refused to do so. Of course if only I could find an attorney that actually acts in my interests I could actually get these damages compensated. Without attorney I’m simply not allowed to claim damages in a civil suit against the Dutch state.

In short my claim for damages is based on the following...
In a lawsuit of some 10 years against the royal-controlled ABN Amro bank (my former employer) that could have settled the case for much less in 2005, in September 2014 the Court of appeals (Gerechtshof) awarded me 10 years in salary to be paid: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inzien...:2014:4060


Unfortunately the Court of appeals “forgot” to rule on my requests for compensation of interest and legal increase (more than half a million Euro).
The corrupt attorney Ton Vermeulen that I requested to appeal to the Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) simply insisted that an appeal wouldn’t stand a chance (for some 3000 Euros).

On 7 February 2020 “my” attorney Vincent Rutgers filed a request for the Court of appeals to correct its earlier judgement of 16 September 2014 (art. 32 and/or 31 Rv).
So the Court of appeals on 12 March simply claimed that I had not requested this in the first place. Of course my (earlier) attorney had done so and the court documents show this.
Unfortunately no appeal is possible against an unlawful act like that by a judge in the Netherlands.

Legally it is possible to claim damages from the state for this illegal act (art. 42 WRRA and/or art. 6:162 BW and/or art. 6 en 13 ECHR).
So when I asked attorney Rutgers to claim damages against the state, he simply refused while he also suddenly (which he had earlier “promised” to) refused to claim damages from attorney Vermeulen (who should have appealed to the Supreme Court earlier).


After my letter of 11 August, on 25 August Minister Grapperhaus sent me a bullsh*t letter that he couldn’t understand that I claimed damages from the state and because of this simply redirected my letter to another government agency. Grapperhaus is a former attorney, so should be able to understand a simple legal procedure.
Of course this also violates my privacy, but in a dictatorship where attorneys systematically stab their clients/victims in the back, citizens have no rights...


Then on 26 August all hell broke loose on poor Minister Ferd Grapperhaus...
Grapperhaus as Minister of Justice and Security is responsible for enforcing the coronavirus lockdown that has been decided upon by King Willem-Alexander. This includes a 1.5 meter social distance (except for children, who have shown complete contempt for these foolish regulations).
People in the Netherlands can still be fined under the COVID-19 martial law... enforced by the same Minister Grapperhaus.

On 22 August, Grapperhaus married Mrs. Wytzes in Bloemendaal in a ceremony led by Secretary of State Ankie Broekers-Knol.
Of course the press was there for publicity purposes.

At first the Prive tabloid reported that the wedding had been a great example of social distancing. But when on 26 August videos and pictures were shown to the gullible public, obviously the 35 guests at the wedding had shown complete contempt for these silly rules (that are only for the slaves!).
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How much contempt do they have for us? Grapperhaus and his party were fully aware that journalists were present to make pictures!
See a picture by Ferry Kok of Minister Grapperhaus arm in arm with his (new) mother-in-law.
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Minister Grapperhaus was forced to publicly apologise.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte stated in his defence that Minister Grapperhaus had not lost “credibility”: https://nos.nl/artikel/2346429-trouwfees...diger.html
https://nltimes.nl/2020/09/02/photos-jus...ng-wedding
The Order of the Garter rules the world: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...5549#p5549
#56
PETER HITCHENS: How the Government is wading into the swamp of despotism – one muzzle at a time

https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/...-time.html
#57
Delingpole: Boris Johnson Has Led a Fascist Coup Against the United Kingdom

Boris Johnson has led a fascist coup against the United Kingdom.
If that sounds like an exaggeration, just ask yourself how you’d have felt a year ago — or even six months ago — if you’d been told a British government was planning to institute a 10pm curfew, ban gatherings of more than six people, impose daily immunity tests before you were allowed to go about your business, employ Stasi-like volunteer ‘marshals’ to ensure public compliance and warning that it might even have to cancel Christmas?
Your first reaction would have been: “Impossible. This is the kind of thing that excitable foreigners engage in. Never the phlegmatic, rational British – and certainly, never, ever, EVER so long as there’s a Conservative government in power.”
Your second reaction would have been: “Oh, I get it. It’s a joke, right? You’re telling me the plotline of some new dystopian graphic novel on the lines of Watchmen currently being adapted for Amazon Prime or Netflix, yeah?”
I still can’t quite believe it myself.


Read More....

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09...d-kingdom/
#58
Rusty Firmin ex SAS speaks and asks the government why our elite troops are being dialed up for the EU role and have rebadged for contract, mercenaries perhaps, will the EU allow other troops here in the Uk to police our borders, because this is what it will likely involve.

https://youtu.be/E5DeFgutWoQ

A true patriot and a man you can trust, the man with no gloves.

https://youtu.be/klg4mzi4Ojc

[Image: 50305017322_1613c05ff8_c.jpg]eu Paras by apprentice 01, on Flickr

[Image: 50323679908_ed97bdbcf9_c.jpg]eu dev fund by apprentice 01, on Flickr

Answers are neded before it is too late.

Offensive weapons bill 2.0

The TTT or known as the totalitarian tiptoe is slowly gaining speed on what the general public can own where rifles and other weapons are concened, while the police forces are gaining speed and arming themselves with full spec military grade weapons of what the system deems as weapons of mass harm, thus the equality is now one sided, even air rifles are on the list for undesireable and already restricted in parts of the British Isles.

https://youtu.be/FEeoKBLj89s

Does anyone see a similar time in history where the public was dis-armed.

False flags around the world have taken their toll.
#59
The Coronavirus (Retention of Fingerprints and DNA Profiles in the Interests of National Security) (No. 2) Regulations 2020

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 24(2), (4) and (8) of the Coronavirus Act 2020(1).
The Secretary of State, in accordance with section 24(3) of that Act, considers that coronavirus is having, or is likely to have, an adverse effect on the capacity of persons responsible for making national security determinations to consider whether to make, or renew, national security determinations and that it is in the interests of national security to retain the fingerprints or DNA profiles as provided for in these Regulations.
The Secretary of State has consulted the Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material in accordance with section 24(6) of that Act.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Coronavirus (Retention of Fingerprints and DNA Profiles in the Interests of National Security) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 1st October 2020.
(2) In these Regulations, “the first retention Regulations” means the Coronavirus (Retention of Fingerprints and DNA Profiles in the Interests of National Security) Regulations 2020(2).
Extension of the effect of a national security determination
2.—(1) Paragraph (3) applies in respect of fingerprints or DNA profiles that satisfy the condition in paragraph (2).
(2) The condition is that the fingerprints or DNA profiles are retained in accordance with a national security determination that will (ignoring the effect of these Regulations) cease to have effect on a date during the period that starts with 1st October 2020 and ends with 24th March 2021.
(3) The retention of the fingerprints or DNA profiles under the national security determination may continue for a further period of six months starting with the date on which the national security determination would otherwise have ceased to have effect.
(4) In paragraphs (2) and (3), references to the date on which a national security determination ceases to have effect include the date on which a national security determination whose effect has been extended in accordance with regulation 2 of the first retention Regulations (extension of the effect of a national security determination) ceases to have effect.


https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020...view=plain

The Coronavirus (Retention of Fingerprints and DNA Profiles in the Interests of National Security) (No. 2) Regulations 2020

Statutory Instruments
2020 No. 973
National Security
The Coronavirus (Retention of Fingerprints and DNA Profiles in the Interests of National Security) (No. 2) Regulations 2020
Made
at 2.54 p.m. on 10th September 2020
Laid before Parliament
at 4.00 p.m. on 10th September 2020
Coming into force
1st October 2020
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 24(2), (4) and (8) of the Coronavirus Act 2020(1).
The Secretary of State, in accordance with section 24(3) of that Act, considers that coronavirus is having, or is likely to have, an adverse effect on the capacity of persons responsible for making national security determinations to consider whether to make, or renew, national security determinations and that it is in the interests of national security to retain the fingerprints or DNA profiles as provided for in these Regulations.
The Secretary of State has consulted the Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material in accordance with section 24(6) of that Act.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Coronavirus (Retention of Fingerprints and DNA Profiles in the Interests of National Security) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 1st October 2020.
(2) In these Regulations, “the first retention Regulations” means the Coronavirus (Retention of Fingerprints and DNA Profiles in the Interests of National Security) Regulations 2020(2).
Extension of the effect of a national security determination
2.—(1) Paragraph (3) applies in respect of fingerprints or DNA profiles that satisfy the condition in paragraph (2).
(2) The condition is that the fingerprints or DNA profiles are retained in accordance with a national security determination that will (ignoring the effect of these Regulations) cease to have effect on a date during the period that starts with 1st October 2020 and ends with 24th March 2021.
(3) The retention of the fingerprints or DNA profiles under the national security determination may continue for a further period of six months starting with the date on which the national security determination would otherwise have ceased to have effect.
(4) In paragraphs (2) and (3), references to the date on which a national security determination ceases to have effect include the date on which a national security determination whose effect has been extended in accordance with regulation 2 of the first retention Regulations (extension of the effect of a national security determination) ceases to have effect.
Extension of a current statutory retention period
3.—(1) Paragraph (4) applies in respect of fingerprints or DNA profiles that satisfy the conditions in paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) The first condition is that the fingerprints or DNA profiles are retained—
(a)under any of the following provisions—
(i)paragraph 20B(3) or paragraph 20C(3) of Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000 (retention of paragraph 20A material)(3);
(ii)section 18A(1) of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 (retention of section 18 material)(4);
(iii)paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 6 to the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Act 2011 (retention of paragraph 6 material)(5), or
(b)under section 63F(3) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (retention of section 63D material)(6) if the fingerprints or DNA profiles satisfy the national security retention condition (see regulation 5).
(3) The second condition is that the final day of the period for which the fingerprints or DNA profiles may be retained (“the retention period”) will (ignoring the effect of these Regulations) fall on a date during the period that starts with 1st October 2020 and ends with 24th March 2021.
(4) The retention of the fingerprints or DNA profiles may continue for a further period of six months starting with the date on which the final day of the retention period would otherwise have fallen.
(5) In paragraphs (3) and (4), references to the retention period include a retention period as extended in accordance with regulation 3 of the first retention Regulations (extension of a current statutory retention period).
Retention in advance of a requirement to destroy
4.—(1) Paragraph (4) applies in respect of fingerprints or DNA profiles that satisfy the conditions in paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) The first condition is that the fingerprints or DNA profiles satisfy the national security retention condition (see regulation 5).
(3) The second condition is that the fingerprints or DNA profiles must (ignoring the effect of these Regulations) be destroyed under any of the following provisions on a date during the period that starts with 1st October 2020 and ends with 24th March 2021—
(a)section 18(3) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (destruction of relevant physical data)(7);
(b)Article 64(3), 64ZB(2), 64ZC(3), 64ZD(3), 64ZE(3), 64ZF(3), 64ZG(3) or 64ZH(3) of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (destruction of fingerprints and samples)(8).
(4) The fingerprints or DNA profiles may be retained for a further period of six months starting with the date on which the requirement to destroy the fingerprints or DNA profiles would otherwise have arisen.
(5) In the case of fingerprints or DNA profiles retained for a further period in accordance with regulation 4 of the first retention Regulations (retention in advance of a requirement to destroy), the relevant date for the purposes of paragraph (3) of this regulation is the day after the final day of that further period.
National security retention condition
5.—(1) For the purposes of regulations 3(2)(b) and 4(2), fingerprints or DNA profiles satisfy the national security retention condition if, prior to these Regulations coming into force, the controller of the fingerprints or DNA profiles has been notified by a constable or a member of the civilian staff of a police force that the fingerprints or DNA profiles may be relevant to the interests of national security.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) notification may be given in any form.
(3) In this regulation—
(a)“controller” is to be construed in accordance with Part 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018(9); and
(b)“police force” means a police force in England and Wales, the Police Service of Scotland or the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
James Brokenshire
Minister of State
Home Office
At 2.54 p.m. on 10th September 2020
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations provide for extension of the time limits that apply to the retention of certain fingerprints or DNA profiles. The Regulations apply in respect of fingerprints or DNA profiles that are retained under certain counter-terrorism provisions, or that may otherwise be relevant to the interests of national security.
These Regulations are the second set of Regulations made using the powers conferred by section 24 of the Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7). The Coronavirus (Retention of Fingerprints and DNA Profiles in the Interests of National Security) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/391) (“the first retention Regulations”) provided for an extension of the retention time limits for six months.
These Regulations apply only to fingerprints or DNA profiles that would (ignoring the effect of these Regulations) fall to be destroyed in the period that starts with 1st October 2020 and ends with 24th March 2021. The period ends with 24th March 2021 in order to satisfy the condition found in section 24(5) of the Coronavirus Act 2020.
Regulation 2 makes provision in respect of fingerprints or DNA profiles that are retained in accordance with a national security determination. Paragraph (3) provides for the continued retention of fingerprints or DNA profiles under the national security determination for a further period of six months. Paragraph (4) confirms that regulation 2 applies to a national security determination the effect of which was extended in accordance with regulation 2 of the first retention Regulations (extension of the effect of a national security determination).
Regulation 3 makes provision in respect of fingerprints or DNA profiles that are retained under a statutory retention period. Paragraph (4) provides that the fingerprints or DNA profiles may be retained under that retention period for a further period of six months. Paragraph (5) confirms that regulation 3 applies to a retention period that was extended in accordance with regulation 3 of the first retention Regulations (extension of a current statutory retention period).
Regulation 4 makes provision in respect of fingerprints or DNA profiles that are currently retained and in respect of which a requirement to destroy would arise under certain provisions. Paragraph (4) provides that the fingerprints or DNA profiles may be retained for a further period of six months. Paragraph (5) confirms that regulation 4 applies to fingerprints and DNA profiles that have been retained for a further period in accordance with regulation 4 of the first retention Regulations (retention in advance of a requirement to destroy).
Regulation 5 provides the meaning of the national security retention condition, which is used in regulations 3 and 4. It provides that fingerprints or DNA profiles are retained in the interests of national security if a constable or a civilian staff member of a police force has notified the controller of the fingerprints and DNA profiles that they may be relevant to the interests of national security.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.
(1)
2020 c. 7.
(2)
S.I. 2020/391.
(3)
2000 c. 11. Paragraphs 20B and 20C of Schedule 8 were inserted by section 19 of, and paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 1 to, the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9).
(4)
2008 c. 28. Section 18A was inserted by section 19 of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.
(5)
2011 c. 23.
(6)
1984 c. 60. Section 63F was inserted by section 3 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.
(7)
1995 c. 46. Section 18(3) was subject to relevant amendment by section 19 of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to, the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.
(8)
S.I. 1341/1989 (N.I. 12). Articles 64ZB-64ZH were inserted by section 15(2) of the Crime and Security Act 2010 (c. 17).
(9)
2018 c. 12.
#60
Lord Sumption speaks,

We do have a choice, unless we want the state to make those decisions for us, if we don't grow up and act as adults we deserve all we are going to be given.

https://youtu.be/BB_RUgFRVNw

https://youtu.be/T_6p2jdbm6U

https://youtu.be/SJPF5j129QQ

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