Emailed my MP
zak, 14 Jul 2006 23:31:44
Well, I've just emailed my MP as a follow up to the letter I wrote him.
Let's see if I get a better reply than the previous
thank-you-for-your-letter (trns: Ok nutter now fuck off and let me get back
to worrying about parking regulations)...
Original Message:
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zak@missdemeanour.idps.co.uk zak@missdemeanour.idps.co.uk, 14 Jul 2006 23:31:44
To: waddon@croydonconservatives.com
Teddy, 16 Jul 2006 00:00:39
Hi Zak,
A well written letter; best of luck with this.
T.
Author wrote:
> Well, I've just emailed my MP as a follow up to the letter I wrote him.
> Let's see if I get a better reply than the previous
> thank-you-for-your-letter (trns: Ok nutter now fuck off and let me get back
> to worrying about parking regulations)...
> Original Message:
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: zak@missdemeanour.idps.co.uk zak@missdemeanour.idps.co.uk, 16 Jul 2006 00:00:39
> To: waddon@croydonconservatives.com
> Subject: Proposals on Internet Censorship
> Dear Sir/Madam
> I am not sure if this is the direct email address for Mr Ottoway or not: I
> wrote a letter to him earlier this year regarding the Government's
> proposals to criminalise the possession of "extreme pornography" - a term
> which is semantically pretty much null and void, translating in their terms
> as "anything we think we might not like".
> I understand that there are still rumblings from the Home Office about
> trying to push such legislation through, which I find a cause for concern.
> Whatever anyone's viewpoint on pornography of any kind (and I do not
> presume to know Mr Ottoway's), it is worrying that the Home Office has not
> made public the responses to its idiotic, biased and badly-formatted
> consultation and seems keen to press ahead with legislation despite the
> fact that it would waste a great deal of police time and resources,
> criminalise people who have done nothing more - and who have no likelihood
> of doing anything more - antisocial than look at pictures, and would usher
> in a new era of state-sponsored spying and intrusion on the citizens of
> this country. The HO themselves have been forced to admit that there is no
> evidence whatsoever that looking at pictures leads ordinary people directly
> into the commission of crimes of violence and there are already workable
> laws in existence against crimes of violence.
> If nothing else, I would like Mr Ottoway to consider whether the present
> illiberal and incompetent Government should be allowed to award itself even
> more powers to intrude into the private lives of citizens who are doing no
> harm to anyone else: given the current track record, even looking at stills
> from Carry On Screaming might get your door kicked in, your computer siezed
> and your name on the Sex Offenders register.
> Regards
> Hilary J Kear
> 8 Siddons Rd
> Croydon CR0 4JR
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