Posted on 09/10/2008 12:25:57 PM PDT by libertarian27
Park wardens have been ordered to stop and interrogate anyone who is not accompanied by children.
The visitors who are quizzed have to explain their presence and risk being thrown out or reported to police if their answers are not satisfactory.
The policy has been introduced at Telford Town Park in Shropshire. The council which manages the 420-acre area says it is a 'commonsense approach' aimed at safeguarding children.
But park users accused it of 'authoritarian madness' and said the ruling risked panicking parents about the dangers faced from potential paedophiles.
The policy came to light after two environmental campaigners dressed as penguins were thrown out of the park last month when caught handing out leaflets on climate change.
Telford and Wrekin Council said Rachel Whittaker and Neil Donaldson were ejected because they had not undergone Criminal Records Bureau checks or risk assessments before entering the park - a requirement under the Child Protection Act.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Telford and Wrekin Council said Rachel Whittaker and Neil Donaldson were ejected because they had not undergone Criminal Records Bureau checks or risk assessments before entering the park - a requirement under the Child Protection Act.”
Gotta love anarcho-tyranny, UK-style.
From comments on the daily mail site, this is a tory-run council.
For a country with so many TV surveillance cameras and “traffic control” devices and impediments, they have a very high crime rate. Much higher than America.
Political correctness gone mad. Goodbye England. The UK, soon to be Islamic.
I wonder why the Nazis made war on Britain? Britain came around to their form of government afterall.
Shropshire? Why that’s the ‘ome of the Shropshire Slasher. I saw it on a Daffy Duck cartoon.
Let them try that stunt on a moose limb!
I read those too, it doesn't make any sense, pre-determining adults are pedophiles just because they don't have a kid with them sounds so New-Labour/ Liberal
It’s a bit rich the Daily Mail moaning about this when they and all the other tabloid scum-rags were responsible for whipping up the ludicrously OTT anti-paedophile hysteria in the first place. It just opens up yet another motherload of righteous indignation that they can tap into to feed to the multitudes of imbeciles who pay to read this stuff....
Dude, this is a good thing.
Ask any mother that takes her children to a park to play. They are always on the watch out for a lone male that doesn’t seem to have any reason to be there. Especially if he is wearing sunglasses (the ones so you can’t see his eyes, so you don’t know where he is looking.)
Good thing - Parents keeping an eye on their toddlers while in the park. Can't argue with that!
Bad thing - throwing adults out of the park without a molecule of probable cause.
This is a good thing? The loss of liberty? Or at least someone else's loss of liberty?
But, I'm sure you'd be singing a different tune if the policy were aimed at overweight, undereducated, dowdy housewives, unfairly impinging on your rights.
This is a good thing? The loss of liberty? Or at least someone else's loss of liberty?
But, I'm sure you'd be singing a different tune if the policy were aimed at overweight, undereducated, dowdy housewives, unfairly impinging on your rights.
Parents Should keep an eye out for their children, but to pre-ordain that some Adult walking in a park alone must be a Pedophile and must be stopped and questioned is ludicrous.
Yes, pedophilia is a bad and sick thing, but should they also start questioning any single female in parks. They could be prostitutes or sexual predators on the lookout for young men to seduce. Have you seen in the news the large amount of female teachers having sex with their male students. Seems like it's a higher percentage than the male teachers.
420 acres?!? Sounds like a helluva lot more than a kiddie park.
And “Great” Britain wants to protect children? Since when? That’s the same place where some mental defectives suggested that children that don’t clean their plates could be tarred with the epithet “racist”.
freeriders?
Loitering laws went out because they weren’t PC, but they served a purpose.
If you see someone that seems totally out of place in an area, it is reasonable to ask what they are doing there.
Gotcha. So, a citizen peacefully and lawfully using a public park should be targetted by the authorities if he happens to be a guy wearing sunglasses. That's a policy perfectly in tune with the idea of liberty and freedom / sarc
FREERIDERS..........PING!!!!
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