Insane Police

If you want to see how easy it is to slide into a police state, look at this poor guy's web site, Innocent in London.

It took the UK police "only" 4 years and 2 months to finally admit that they had no reason to arrest him and that they had "made a mistake". (With speed like that, you wonder how they manage to arrest a murderer before the fellow dies of old age!)

This web site gives you a blow-by-blow description of how this guy was treated. You get to read the ridiculous "reasons" for his arrest. As he puts it, the police reasoning boils down to:

• The Police decided that wearing a rain jacket, carrying a rucksack with a laptop inside, looking down at the steps while going in a tube station and checking your phone for messages just tick too many boxes on their checklist and make you a terrorist suspect. How many other people are not only wrongly detained but wrongly arrested every week in similar circumstances as myself?


• "All men are suspect, but some are more suspect than others."

Here is the real reason why this should be of concern to everybody:

This gradual erosion of our fundamental liberties should be of concern to us all.