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   Subject: Chief Constable Alderson Condemns "Stasi" MI5   
   Newsgroups:uk.misc,uk.politics,uk.media,uk.legal,soc.culture.british   
   Organization: Toronto Free-Net   
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   John Alderson, former Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall, had the   
   following to say about the expansion of the Security Service's powers, in   
   a recent magazine article;   
      
   "It is fatal to let the secret service into the area of ordinary crime.   
   MI5 is not under the same restraints as the police. They infiltrate   
   organisations, people's jobs and lives. They operate almost like a cancer."   
      
   "At the moment the acorn of a Stasi [the former East German communists'   
   secret service] has been planted. It is there for future governments to   
   build on."   
      
   The message is clear. Criminal subversion and criminal harassment by an   
   unpoliced minority not subject to the law, "infiltration of people's jobs   
   and lives" is with us today.   
      
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