http://www.pledgebank.com/nopolicestate Comments on 'write to my MP to oppose the creation of a police state in Britain, and to demand the reinstatement of the civil liberties that Britain pioneered' en-gb team@pledgebank.com 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 2 hourly http://www.pledgebank.com/nopolicestate#comment_6789 I have read the comments of Christian Maine posted 25/8, to add further to his point I believe it is also the case if you agree to give a D.N.A sample to eliminate yourself form a police enquiry as I did some years ago. These samples are now kept & not destroyed as they were in my case, & also in the case of my 15 year old step daughter, arrested while out with her friends taken to a police station, held for 17 hours D.N.A & fingerprints taken & she was neither charged or cautioned for any offence ! This in my view has to be wrong & is now happening on a day to day basis. I will happily support your pledge & anyone how will put the power back were it belongs, in the hands of the people ! http://www.pledgebank.com/nopolicestate#comment_3407 As a History (and English) student I can see exactly where you are coming from and where this police state is leading. Ive been aware of this slow erosion of civil liberties for a while now and I am pleased that more and more people are becoming aware. http://www.pledgebank.com/nopolicestate#comment_3391 I live in Brighton and I'm about to have my life totally disrupted by the Labour Party Conference. Their creation of an 'island site' where you can be stopped, searched and harrassed without any reasonable suspicion is disgusting. All of this reduction in our civil liberties in the name of so called terrorism - something this country has been living with for decades... Only now the difference is that the people have more access to information and are questioning things - the government's answer is authoritarian and severely wrong imo... http://www.pledgebank.com/nopolicestate#comment_3340 Though I'm currently working abroad, I've signed anyway 'cause privacy & civil liberties are important anywhere. If the pledge suceeds, I'll pick the MP of my old London constituency. Feel free to check out http://www.pledgebank.com/securewebmail, which I think goes quite nicely with this pledge. You may even decide to write to your MP securely... :-) http://www.pledgebank.com/nopolicestate#comment_3324 I found out this week that if you are arrested for any reason your DNA is taken for the national DNA database. Your DNA is then kept on the database regardless of whether your are convicted, aquitted or even charged. I am so appalled by this, I will be supporting your pledge. http://www.pledgebank.com/nopolicestate#comment_2867 Great idea, and I have pledged, but I feel that more than this is required, thus http://www.pledgebank.com/resistUKtyranny Take a look. Talk is easy, action matters.