The War on Terroism Tourism
We can’t find the plot, so let’s harrass some harmless tourists instead.
Officers of the Met treating guests to our country with contempt, behaving as if they’ve been trained in North Korea, and frankly, demonstrating that they lack sufficient common sense and judgement to be entrusted with the rights-circumventing powers they’ve been given:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/16/police-delete-tourist-photos
How long ago it now seems that we used to regularly hear government ministers resolutely declare “If we let the terrorists change our way of life, they’ve won”. We don’t bloody well hear it now, do we?
(Title quip shamelessly nicked from commenter on Craig Murray’s blog)
Tags: authoritarianism, law, photography, police, rights