I'm starting to think we might be living in interesting times.

[denny]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1717661,00.html

"In both of these incidents, the normal rules of customer service had been suspended and replaced by something alarming: an assumption, by those in uniform, that a member of the public who questions them can now be treated as a potential threat."

"Dangerously for all of us, the fear of terrorism is legitimising intimidating behaviour by petty officials and agents of the state. It has become an excuse for bullying people when they step out of obedient lines."

Comments

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

http://www.yourrights.org.uk/ - worth knowing, possibly worth printing.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Nice article, puts it well.

[snoof.livejournal.com]

Maybe we ought to start thinking about moving... But this is the first time I really don't want to.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

My lack of language skills limits my choice of destinations quite a bit. Add the general trend towards fascism in the English-speaking countries recently and I think the choice boils down to Canada (if you can handle the cold), or NZ (if you can handle not having much to do at the weekend). I think I'm kinda stuck with this place for now.

[snoof.livejournal.com]

The upshot for us is that Matt could keep doing the same job in the Netherlands. But it'd be a lot more like leaving my family behind than any other time I've done the country shuffle boogie.

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

Given your recent propensity for posting this kind of thing, you may want lightfoot_links as one of your to-reads. It's a linklog which varies in all sorts of ways, but has quite a lot of this type of article (I think I originally read it there), as he is a part of MySociety (the group who do "theyworkforyou.com" and now "faxyourmp.com" and "writetothem.com" etc).

It might just depress you, of course.