What do these photos have in common?
Well from today, here in the UK, you can get into an awful lot of trouble for taking them. The authorities can confiscate cameras, remove film, or delete digital images, or even arrest you if they don’t like the look of you taking photos of public places, shopping centres, people, parades, government buildings, transport hubs, members of the armed forces, but especially our boys and girls in blue. In fact, taking a photo of an on-duty police officer can get you a ten year prison sentence. For more information, see here.
It’s all part of the Government’s anti terrorism legislation, you see. But we all know it’s part of the Government’s planned destruction of our civil liberties and desire to turn the UK into a Stalinist Police State.
We’re already the most watched nation in the world. From March, all our e-mail records will be kept, as will records of our mobile phone usage. Soon enough, they’ll be tracking which websites we visit.
Already, more than two people can’t gather in protest without permission from the police. We’ve had concentration camp survivor who dared heckle at the Labour Party conference arrested under anti-terrorism legislation. An opposition MP’s offices and home were raided by anti-terror police and he was arrested under the same legislation.
We are having ID cards forced on us (to help prevent terrorism) too. Of course, the terrorists that have been involved in attacks here were all British anyway and all would’ve held an ID card anyway.
And yet we sit and let it happen. The people are either blind or apathetic, or maybe they’re too scared to protest. We had fewer restrictions on our liberties when we were under threat of invasion from the fucking Nazis.
Fucking nobhead government can go fuck themselves right up the arse for all I care. It’d be nice if everybody took their camera out with them and took as many photos of the police and public places as they can and then e-mail all the images to Jackie Smith and Gordon Brown, the pair of useless cunts.
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