Warning: Do not take this picture
Today's main story in The Independent highlights the appalling behaviour of police forces throughout the UK regarding the over-zealous and deliberate misuse of Section 44 of the Terrorist Act whereby the police can search and detain anybody without a required reason to do so. This grey and bizarre legal instrument has been directed at photographers, amateur and professional alike, for taking innocent photographs of everyday subjects.
Our civil liberties are being eroded in a deliberate and Machiavellian way to grant insidious authoritarian powers to limit our democratic rights. If we don't stand up, speak up, and put a fight up, then the process will be irreversible and we'll have succumbed, by stealth, to what is effectively the seeds of neo-fascism (and yes, I'm serious).
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/warning-do-not-take-this-picture-1833127.html
And if you are interested in maintaining your rights and fighting back using the power of peaceful protest, then also check out this new group who I wish much success and who facilitate a dialogue between the public and the police.
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