Britannia Radio

March of the Wardens: Town Hall 'Enforcers' With Police Powers Increase by a Fifth in a Year

'The number of town hall snoopers and private security guards armed with sweeping police powers has rocketed by a fifth in only 12 months. There are now 1,667 park wardens, dog wardens, car park attendants and shopping centre guards permitted to hand out fines for 'crimes' such as littering, dog fouling and criminal damage.

They may take photographs of the people they have fined, and demand names and addresses. A further 478 civilians have been given the power to stop vehicles to check for out-of-date tax discs. The hope is that the army of civilians will free police officers from having to perform these unpopular tasks. But critics said the so-called Community Safety Accreditation Scheme amounted to 'state-sanctioned vigilantism'.'

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Use Cash

'Big Banking is out of control.  Many corporate financial institutions, considered too big to fail, received a share of a trillion dollars of taxpayer money.  To thank us, they are hiking interest rates on existing credit card debt, lowering and cancelling small business credit lines, and imposing more and higher fees and penalties with impunity.

As taxpayers, workers, citizens and merchants we can fight back.  Not with letters to the editor nor with calls to our government representatives.  There is an easy, immediate and direct path toward banking and monetary reform that benefits people, not corporations, through everyday transactions in the marketplace.

Use cash.'

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