(4 December 2012, 13:31)Oggydoggy100 Wrote: Hope this is the correct area to post this. I was returning home tonight via Victoria Station, when I was stopped by the UK Border Agency. I was informed by two the officers that they were from the Street Enforcement Team???? I was then asked what my immigration status was.........errrrrrr what was my reply.
I was informed that refusal to comply with their requests consitutes a criminal offence. Then I was told they were going to search my bag, OK then go ahead....... Cut along story short, I ended up being told that my folding shoval, Opinal Knive and several other objects I use for work were possible offensive weapons. I was then told I was being reported to the Courts for obstruction. So much for freedom in this country anymore.
Ohhhhhhh I was also told I could be a ................terrorist......... YThe one thing they failed to think odd was the collection of recently excavated animal bones at the bottom of my backpack.
I am begining to think the world has gone bonkers. Just had a phone call from the boys in blue regarding my brush with the UK Border Agency last night-I was a bad boy cuz I refused to disclose my details- I have been invited to attend a police Station so I can be interviewed. Oh yes said P.C. Whoever, we require you to give your finger prints, DNA sample & have ya mug shot taken as you are being reported for the offence of obstruction. I have a couple of friends who Magistrates and both of them have advised me not to step into any Cop shop without a solicitor. I have never ever had any trouble with the Police before, it appears they are intent sometime just to criminalise people for the sake of it. Both Magistrate friends have said in the past that they fear for the future of policing in this country, we just sliding into a an Orwelian future. What I find shocking is just how quick the police contacted me. Just last summer, several friends were having a picknick in a park near the British Museum, they just happened to have a small bottle of wine to go with the food. Four Camden Street Wardens approched them and told them it was an offence to drink in the Park! They had been spotted offending on a CCTV camera. My friends are two heads of Dept at the B.M. not someone consuming numerous cans of Tennants super or anything.
I knew we lived in survailance society, but hell. Sorry for the rant folks just really pissed off at the moment And I was told last night I might be a terrorist