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2009-09-29 Britain

UK council hires snoops to go through garbage

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Posted by lotp 2009-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Be curious to know what the Muslim population is in that area.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-09-29 01:10|| 2009-09-29 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Started wandering around on the Daily Mail links connected to this article and found the article about the yobs that drove a woman to suicide, and the one about the social work nannies getting their knickers in a twist because the children of working families tend to eat more junk food, and the nannies want to develop "programmes" to help. Overwhelming pile of celebrity blether in the links as well.

Comments to yob article include "the lawmakers have gone mad", referring to laws that hogtie the local authorities and prevent them from taking action against criminals.

I'd be interested in a British viewpoint on this dumpster diving article and the other two items.

Posted by mom">mom 2009-09-29 01:47|| 2009-09-29 01:47|| Front Page Top

#3 There is a proposal here in Perth to put cameras in the shute of garbage trucks to make sure people aren't putting 'recyclables' in the normal garbage.

Posted by phil_b 2009-09-29 05:09|| 2009-09-29 05:09|| Front Page Top

#4 "Look at the size of the maggots on that meat."

From "The Great Outdoors" a truely funny movie.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2009-09-29 06:16|| 2009-09-29 06:16|| Front Page Top

#5 ..hmmm...jobs for the unemployed 'journalists' who spent last year going through Sarah's refuge. They can at least check the 'very experienced' block.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-09-29 08:05|| 2009-09-29 08:05|| Front Page Top

#6 I hear they already have something like this in Seattle - a sanitation-engineer can 'put someone on report' someone for placing to much recyclables in their regular trash.

I've never heard a case of it actually being done - Sanitation Engineers tend to be regular folks IMHO....

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-09-29 08:33|| 2009-09-29 08:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Another viewpoint from the Muslim community (from Islamonline this past April)...

Cairo ~ The British government wanted binmen to snoop into Muslims' rubbish cans to look for any suspicious, terror-linked material, a proposal spurned by local officials as an attempt to bring intelligence's "dirty work" to the streets.
"We were asked to snoop on our own residents by getting our binmen to rummage around people's rubbish," Kris Hopkins, Council leader of the city of Bradford, told the Mail on Sunday.

Local authorities of 17 cities, including Bradford, Manchester, Oldham, Leicester and four London boroughs all home to large Muslim communities - were approached recently with the plan, the paper said on Sunday, April 20.

They were asked to get their binmen peeking at Muslims' trash cans for any discarded material that might be related to terrorist groups.

The plan was revealed to Town Halls at a highly-confidential meeting in central London, hosted by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and attended by ministers and high-ranking police chiefs.

Andy Hayman, who at the time was Britain's top anti-terror policeman, was involved in the plan.

Police chiefs told local councils that the plan would be a part of addressing extremism and terror threats in the UK.

Britain is home to a sizable Muslim minority of more than 2 million.

They have been in the eye of the storm since the 7/7 London bombings, enduring a growing Islamophobic climate.

Muslims have also taken the brunt of anti-terror measures including the controversial stop-and-search operations and random house raids.

'Ridiculous'

Responding to the revelations, the DCLG distanced the government, particularly Cabinet Minister Ruth Kelly, who was in charge of the department at the time of the meeting from the plan.

"It did not come from Ruth Kelly or any of her officials," a DCLG official told the Mail.

"It was the police."

The proposal did not hold ground after local councils immediately refused to cooperate.

"I, and others, refused to do anything like this," said Robert Light, the leader of Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire.

Council officials slammed the suggestion as "ridiculous".

"The idea that our binmen should be rooting around a wheelie bin to see if they can spot dodgy bits of paper or funny wires is ridiculous," insisted Hopkins.

"Our binmen aren't there to act like the secret police. They're there to empty our bins."

The council leader of Bradford, where Muslims make up some 25 percent of the population, criticized the plan for damaging community relations.

"Our job is to bring communities together, to help our communities live side by side, not do the dirty work for MI5."

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-09-29 09:59|| 2009-09-29 09:59|| Front Page Top

#8 So put all your trash in your neighbor's cans.

Posted by mojo 2009-09-29 14:46|| 2009-09-29 14:46|| Front Page Top

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