Stop and Search

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Charlotte Gore linked to this post by Henry Porter on the Grauniad's site.

"I meet a lot of nice, intelligent people these days who say they aren't aware that their lives have become any less free. Maybe your life is unaffected, I say, but a lot of people are now experiencing Labour's authoritarian laws. Then I choose a story such as this one from yesterday's papers about the artist and photographer Reuben Powell who was arrested and held for five hours under terrorist laws.

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Photographers, artists, naturalists, trainspotters, journalists are being routinely harassed and persecuted up and down the country. Today, there are reports of a Tory MP, Andrew Pelling, who was arrested while taking photographs of a cycle path. People's fundamental rights are being eroded and nobody seems to give a damn."

I think Porter's post just about says it all.