From today, it is illegal to photograph the police, despite the fact that they use increasingly aggressive techniques to record us

On the day that it becomes illegal to take pictures of police engaged in counter-terrorist operations – in practice a ban on taking pictures of the police – it is worth noting events in Brighton recently where police set up outside a cafe and photographed people attending a meeting about the environment.

Yet more indications of our slide into totalitarianism where the state can do what it likes to us but we dare not speak out against it.


READ MORE at:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/16/protest-police-liberty-central