British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he wants to remove the bit of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA) that prevents demonstrations within a kilometre of Parliament Square. Perhaps he is not such a denyer of basic rights that our ancestors fought and died for after all. WRONG. The Government dredged up an Act from 1839 to try and prevent the peace march on 8th October 2007. This Act is even more draconian in preventing peaceful protest than the bit of SOCPA that he proposes to withdraw. Happily, at the very last minute, they backed off and the march went ahead.
Don't think Brown & Co won't try again. If you put together all the bits of personal intrusion introduced in the last decade and planned for the future it is hardly an exaggeration to say that so called 'free' Britain has a capacity for monitoring its' citizens similar to that of any totalitarian state you care to think of.
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