Is this where we are heading (or are we already there?)

It was the roses that got me into trouble.

I had gone to talk to the owner of the greenhouses for an environmental story I have been working on.

By the time I realised I had broken the law, it was too late.

My crime was not just to be within the town - to be honest, I did not realise I was, because the greenhouses were well outside the built-up area - but to be a foreigner within the town.

This story by the BBC tells the tale of a journalist who entered the administrative area of a town which foreigners were not allowed to enter, the event happened in Russia, in a town where military submarines are housed.

I can't help thinking of our drift here in the UK towards laws being introduced that we are not aware of and don't know we are breaking.

I never thought that I would hear of someone being arrested for reading out the names of the war dead at the cenotaph.

I never thought I would hear of the police rounding up football supporters in a pub before a match and escorting them out of town.

I never thought that I would hear of the police stopping protestors on their way to a peaceful demonstration at RAF Fairford and escorting them all the way back to London without even allowing stops for visits to the loo or sickness.

I get worried seeing the UK authorities seizing draconian powers while the people blindly agree that we must lose our liberties in order to keep us safe.


READ MORE at :-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7883539.stm