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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   So the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers was "not   
   describing ACPO policy" when, in an interview with the Press   
   Association, he called for paedophiles to be chip-implanted and   
   monitored by satellite. Oh, so just following Home Office orders, then?   
   :-)   
      
   Note that he says:   
      
   >>>You could have a pilot scheme for the people who represent the   
   >>>highest risk and who would voluntarily want to go into this.   
      
   And that's supposed to be a "pilot" scheme, folks.   
      
      
      
   ***BEGIN ARTICLE***   
      
   Call for paedophiles to be chipped   
   Press Association   
   Sunday July 16, 2006 2:13 PM   
      
      
   The head of Britain's chief police officers has called for convicted   
   paedophiles and dangerous sex offenders to be surgically implanted with   
   electronic chips.   
      
   In a newspaper interview Ken Jones, president of the Association of   
   Chief Police Officers (ACPO), said the implants would mean they could be   
   tracked by satellite.   
      
   But the Home Office dismissed the idea, saying that it was not   
   considering any such proposal.   
      
   Mr Jones said the tracking devices would enable authorities to bar   
   offenders from certain "zones" such as schools, playgrounds, and   
   victims' homes. Any attempt to enter them would trigger alarms in a   
   monitoring centre, enabling police to take action, he told the Sunday   
   Times.   
      
   "If we are prepared to track cars, why don't we track people? You could   
   put surgical chips into those of the most dangerous sex offenders who   
   are willing to be controlled."   
      
   While there would be civil liberties concerns over such a "Big Brother"   
   monitoring system, the chips would only be implanted with the agreement   
   of sex offenders and targeted at those guilty of the most serious   
   crimes.   
      
   "You could have a pilot scheme for the people who represent the highest   
   risk and who would voluntarily want to go into this. You'd be surprised   
   how many would be willing to submit to that kind of control," he added.   
      
   His comments come after Home Secretary John Reid announced the   
   Government was considering a law allowing parents to find out if   
   paedophiles were living near them, similar to "Megan's Law" which   
   operates in the US.   
      
   Mr Jones, who was speaking in a personal capacity in the interview and   
   not describing ACPO policy, said it was a "great opportunity" to   
   consider a wide range of options.   
      
   But a Home Office spokeswoman said: "We are not considering monitoring   
   them through microchips."   
      
   ***END ARTICLE***   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)