Citizen No2
20th September 2015, 17:18
I attended a business meeting today, have to say, I was not looking forward to it...... it's a beautiful day, it's Sunday and the weather has mostly been horrendous this week. I had to attend as a small group had travelled over from the UK to come and advise me on a couple of matters.
So, we've met, made introductions, and are sat outside a coffee-house at a nice spot next to the marina and start discussing business matters. In this group of three that have travelled over is a graphic designer, advising about my logo and branding, so on and so forth. After an hour or so, the meeting has concluded and the two consultants decide to go and walk around the marina and look at the boats. The graphic's guy asks if I'd like another coffee and goes to get them. When he sits back down we start talking, this and that and after 10 minutes or so we're into pretty deep water....... Chinese explosions, earth quakes, etc, etc...... and I'm just letting him talk away, thinking to myself, "yeah, he's pretty aware this guy".
Then, he get's on to this................ The Civiil Contingencies Act 2004 and starts telling me it's purpose and why the government would need these emergency powers. Then, of people he is aware of that have had their homes seized and destroyed, others have lost employment and had their name smeared, etc, etc, and these people are the same as us..... just citizens' that are aware, communicate, read and talk about what is really going on in the world, that he knows of well-established networks of people who are well prepared and ready as best you can be for an impending, disaster type event, and that these people are really concerned and are prepared and ready........ And I'm just sitting there, with my sunglasses on, thank God, thinking to myself... "Holy Sh^t!"
So I've come home, fired up the machine, and lo-and-behold, Here it is. Brought in to law by the UK government in 2004. I'm copying and pasting the most sinister part of it below. Graphic's guy was level headed, intelligent, a well spoken man and, like he said, "why would they need section 22 of this act?".
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/36/section/22
(3)Emergency regulations may make provision of any kind that could be made by Act of Parliament or by the exercise of the Royal Prerogative; in particular, regulations may—
(a)confer a function on a Minister of the Crown, on the Scottish Ministers, on the National Assembly for Wales, on a Northern Ireland department, on a coordinator appointed under section 24 or on any other specified person (and a function conferred may, in particular, be—
(i)a power, or duty, to exercise a discretion;
(ii)a power to give directions or orders, whether written or oral);
(b)provide for or enable the requisition or confiscation of property (with or without compensation);
(c)provide for or enable the destruction of property, animal life or plant life (with or without compensation);
(d)prohibit, or enable the prohibition of, movement to or from a specified place;
(e)require, or enable the requirement of, movement to or from a specified place;
(f)prohibit, or enable the prohibition of, assemblies of specified kinds, at specified places or at specified times;
(g)prohibit, or enable the prohibition of, travel at specified times;
(h)prohibit, or enable the prohibition of, other specified activities;
(i)create an offence of—
(i)failing to comply with a provision of the regulations;
(ii)failing to comply with a direction or order given or made under the regulations;
(iii)obstructing a person in the performance of a function under or by virtue of the regulations;
(j)disapply or modify an enactment or a provision made under or by virtue of an enactment;
(k)require a person or body to act in performance of a function (whether the function is conferred by the regulations or otherwise and whether or not the regulations also make provision for remuneration or compensation);
(l)enable the Defence Council to authorise the deployment of Her Majesty’s armed forces;
(m)make provision (which may include conferring powers in relation to property) for facilitating any deployment of Her Majesty’s armed forces;
(n)confer jurisdiction on a court or tribunal (which may include a tribunal established by the regulations);
(o)make provision which has effect in relation to, or to anything done in—
(i)an area of the territorial sea,
(ii)an area within British fishery limits, or
(iii)an area of the continental shelf;
(p)make provision which applies generally or only in specified circumstances or for a specified purpose;
(q)make different provision for different circumstances or purposes.
Regards.
So, we've met, made introductions, and are sat outside a coffee-house at a nice spot next to the marina and start discussing business matters. In this group of three that have travelled over is a graphic designer, advising about my logo and branding, so on and so forth. After an hour or so, the meeting has concluded and the two consultants decide to go and walk around the marina and look at the boats. The graphic's guy asks if I'd like another coffee and goes to get them. When he sits back down we start talking, this and that and after 10 minutes or so we're into pretty deep water....... Chinese explosions, earth quakes, etc, etc...... and I'm just letting him talk away, thinking to myself, "yeah, he's pretty aware this guy".
Then, he get's on to this................ The Civiil Contingencies Act 2004 and starts telling me it's purpose and why the government would need these emergency powers. Then, of people he is aware of that have had their homes seized and destroyed, others have lost employment and had their name smeared, etc, etc, and these people are the same as us..... just citizens' that are aware, communicate, read and talk about what is really going on in the world, that he knows of well-established networks of people who are well prepared and ready as best you can be for an impending, disaster type event, and that these people are really concerned and are prepared and ready........ And I'm just sitting there, with my sunglasses on, thank God, thinking to myself... "Holy Sh^t!"
So I've come home, fired up the machine, and lo-and-behold, Here it is. Brought in to law by the UK government in 2004. I'm copying and pasting the most sinister part of it below. Graphic's guy was level headed, intelligent, a well spoken man and, like he said, "why would they need section 22 of this act?".
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/36/section/22
(3)Emergency regulations may make provision of any kind that could be made by Act of Parliament or by the exercise of the Royal Prerogative; in particular, regulations may—
(a)confer a function on a Minister of the Crown, on the Scottish Ministers, on the National Assembly for Wales, on a Northern Ireland department, on a coordinator appointed under section 24 or on any other specified person (and a function conferred may, in particular, be—
(i)a power, or duty, to exercise a discretion;
(ii)a power to give directions or orders, whether written or oral);
(b)provide for or enable the requisition or confiscation of property (with or without compensation);
(c)provide for or enable the destruction of property, animal life or plant life (with or without compensation);
(d)prohibit, or enable the prohibition of, movement to or from a specified place;
(e)require, or enable the requirement of, movement to or from a specified place;
(f)prohibit, or enable the prohibition of, assemblies of specified kinds, at specified places or at specified times;
(g)prohibit, or enable the prohibition of, travel at specified times;
(h)prohibit, or enable the prohibition of, other specified activities;
(i)create an offence of—
(i)failing to comply with a provision of the regulations;
(ii)failing to comply with a direction or order given or made under the regulations;
(iii)obstructing a person in the performance of a function under or by virtue of the regulations;
(j)disapply or modify an enactment or a provision made under or by virtue of an enactment;
(k)require a person or body to act in performance of a function (whether the function is conferred by the regulations or otherwise and whether or not the regulations also make provision for remuneration or compensation);
(l)enable the Defence Council to authorise the deployment of Her Majesty’s armed forces;
(m)make provision (which may include conferring powers in relation to property) for facilitating any deployment of Her Majesty’s armed forces;
(n)confer jurisdiction on a court or tribunal (which may include a tribunal established by the regulations);
(o)make provision which has effect in relation to, or to anything done in—
(i)an area of the territorial sea,
(ii)an area within British fishery limits, or
(iii)an area of the continental shelf;
(p)make provision which applies generally or only in specified circumstances or for a specified purpose;
(q)make different provision for different circumstances or purposes.
Regards.