84 year old man and his daughter stopped by anti terror police thanks to ANPR

Quite amazing timing coming on the heals of my blog about the ANPR network currently being implemented:-

An 84 year old man and his daughter appeared tonight on the BBC TV programme "Who's watching you?" to tell their story of how they were pulled over in Central London and searched by a police anti-terrorism unit - and threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act if they did not explain where they were going.

What they hadn't realised was Sussex Police had put a marker against their car on the Police National Computer after they attending three anti-arms demonstrations against EDO MBM Technology in Moulsecoomb.

They hadn't commited any crime, they hadn't been arrested, they had just attended a demonstration. That was enough to get them marked down as potential terrorists and harrassed by the police whilst going about their lawful lives.

This is the kind of thing we must STOP right now! Our government (and the police acting on their behalf) should not be harrassing innocent people, this routine monitoring and surveillance of innocent people should not happen in what I always believed to be a free country.

Write to your MP demanding that they vote to dismantle this police state that we have become.

Read the newspaper story at http://www.theargus.co.uk/search/4393086.Brighton_pensioner_slams__police_state__after_terror_police_tag_car/

Watch the programme at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ktdzj/Whos_Watching_You_Episode_1/