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Mechanisms of repression
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Mechanisms of repression
Kafkaesque from the National Crime Squad
Under the Freedom of Information Act a UK enquirer put the following questions to the National Crime Squad:
1. Out of the UK Landslide subscribers, how many of these are no longer alive?
2. Out of the UK Landslide subscribers, how many of these were not alive when Operation Ore started?
This was the reply
National Crime Squad
Mr J Winterbottom, Records Manager
PO Box 2500, London SW1V 2WF Tel 0870 267 2004
6 July 2005
Freedom of Information Act Request Reference Number: 00010
I write in connection with your request for information dated 26 June 2005 which was received by the National Crime Squad on 4 July 2005. I note you request access to the following information:
Information relating to Landslide subscribers list
Following receipt of your request searches were conducted within the National Crime Squad to locate information relevant to your request. I can confirm that the information you request is held by the National Crime Squad.
Extent of searches to locate information
To locate the information relevant to your request, searches were conducted at HQ.
Result of searches
The searches located limited records relevant to your request.
Decision
I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full. Please find attached records numbered 1.
Complaint rights
Your attention is drawn to the attached sheet which details your right of complaint. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in the National Crime Squad.
Should you have any further inquiries concerning this matter, please write or contact Mr J Winterbottom on telephone 0870 267 2004 quoting the request reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
Mr J Winterbottom,
Records Manager
Record One
1. Out of the UK Landslide subscribers, how many of these are no longer alive?
We do not hold this data. We suggest you contact the original regional forces who may hold this material.
2. Out of the UK Landslide subscribers, how many of these were not alive when Operation Ore started?
We do not hold this data. We suggest you contact the original regional forces who may hold this material.
Editorial commentary
This should perhaps be titled ‘Editorial translation’. After searching within the National Crime Squad to locate the information relevant to the request, they confirm that it is indeed held by the National Crime Squad. They had to search at HQ and located limited records relevant to the request.
Mr J Winterbottom decided to disclose the located information in full and referred to ‘attached records numbered 1’.
Answer number 1 is ‘We do not hold this data. We suggest you contact the original regional forces who may hold this material’.
Answer number 2 is ‘We do not hold this data. We suggest you contact the original regional forces who may hold this material’.
Summary. They found the information, although limited, and decided to release it, but the information is that they do not hold this data. They suggest he contact the original regional forces who may hold this material.
We await the enquirer’s response.
Meanwhile we note ‘I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in the National Crime Squad’ and ‘Should you have any further inquiries concerning this matter, please write or contact - - - .’
When side by side with this we read also about the collapse of Operation Ore and emerging horror stories such as the way Sarah was treated, the irony of the above will not be lost.
Mechanisms of repression
One click and you’re out - Pervcheck
Free speech in Britain under threat
The US lurches to the right
Sarah’s story
Kafkaesque from the National Crime Squad
More Big Brother building blocks in place
How porn is being used to quash dissent
Book burning in Canada given Royal Assent
And the net draws tighter.
Response to AOL
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