There. I've gone and done it. Shouted at the top of my keyboard, so to speak. I expect the police at the door any moment, with a warrant to shut down my TypePad account.
Horse and Hound (yes, that one) has the background. Seems a woman was arrested for wearing just such a slogan on a t-shirt. And you've no doubt heard about the 82-year-old man who was tossed out of Labour's conference yesterday for heckling Jack Straw, then refused readmittance under the prevention of terrorism act. (Today everyone from Tony Blair on down are tripping over themselves to say sorry.) Phil E. has more here.
Then we have the story about the man arrested for suspicious behaviour on the tube. Playing with a phone, wearing the requisite "bulky jacket", avoiding eye contact—why, what was he thinking?
Probably something similar to what I was thinking a couple of weeks ago.
It all sounds like a bad joke, but I wish I were making it up. Civil liberties are disappearing faster than you can say "I'm innocent" around here.
In other news, at least 60 were killed in Iraq today. Bollocks to Blair.
