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on Wed 31 Aug 05, 11:33 PM to SnowdropExplodes's blog.
Sorry, yet another blog regarding the Consultation on the possession of Extreme Pornography.
(I was born to be a campaigner, I think!)
This one is simply to show how important it is to write a letter to the Consultation, and to explain why it could be an effective way to address the issue.
To assess the likely effectiveness of a letter-wrting campaign by members of IC (and by the BDSM community at large) I decided to look at the summaries of responses to some of the other consultation papers on the Home Office website.
The papers I looked at were:
* SECURING THE ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES IN COURT- A CONSULTATION PAPER
* 'Compensation & Support for Victims of Crime'
* Criminal Justice Act 2003 Implementation Disclosure Codes of Practice
* Respecting Privacy and Protecting the Public from Crime - Responses to the privacy chapter of a consultation associated with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA)
The first of these received 84 responses, however, looking at the list of respondents given in Annex A, it would appear that all of these were from law enforcement agencies, or civil rights organisations.
The second received 106 responses, and looking at the list of respondents given in Annex A, it appears that at most 28 of these were members of the public, "concerned individuals" as one might put it!
The third received 35 responses, and the breakdown of those responses was given as: Police forces (12); Professional groups (10); Public bodies (7); Solicitors (3); Voluntary organisations (1); Academics (1).
The fourth received 28 responses, and the breakdown of those responses was given as: commercial organisations (3); interest groups (9); private individuals (5); public bodies (11)
I tried to find topics that would have been likely to be of great interest to "campaigning" types of individuals, and I think that 'Compensation & Support for Victims of Crime' is probably the strongest example of that. Fully a quarter of the respondents there were private individuals.
If we assume that the consultation on possession of extreme pornography is going to attract more responses from members of the public, and attracts as many as 100 responses from police forces, legal professionals, MPs and campaign groups, we are still looking at a total of maybe 150 responses, not including our own.
That means that if 150 Informed Consent members write letters of their own, and include responses to the 7 questions in the consultation paper, then we can probably be the majority viewpoint in the responses that they receive. In all probability, there will be far fewer responses than that from other people (the consultation paper isn't that easy to find on the Home Office website, for a start!)
That fact HAS TO BE RECORDED IN THE SUMMARY, and our views have to be presented to the Government.
For an example of what a consultation paper summary of responses looks like, you can visit the following website:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs2/RIPA_consult_...
Ta, SnowdropExplodes
| 31 Aug 05, 11:46 PM anghara UK(E), 7 yrs |
OK, well, i don't tend to read the webboards as often as the blogs, so i for one am glad you put this here.... Will look into it and attempt to scribble something legible down that might even make sense.... LOL, if i use small words do you think they might understand me? Other than that, keep going, it's good to see someone making an effort to get this happening. First, and above all other rules, DO NO HARM. |
| 1 Sep 05, 12:03 PM fuschia UK(SE), 11 yrs |
Good work. Once we get a website up and running, hopefully you'll feed in your research?
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