Stop and searches are only allowed in areas which have been designated as likely terrorist attacks. Please provide a source which states people are placed on the terrorist watch list for simply taking a picture.
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Schoolboy, 15, held as terror suspect after taking photos of railway station for GCSE project | Mail Online
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Police delete London tourists' photos 'to prevent terrorism' | UK news | guardian.co.uk (They just had the pictures deleted)
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BBC NEWS | UK | Is it a crime to take pictures? (Section 76 of the counter-terrorism code says YES)
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Photographers criminalised as police 'abuse' anti-terror laws - Home News, UK - The Independent
And why would that be? If you think public safety during exercise of the individuals right of freedom of movement = anti-freedom then you're wires must be crossed.
Ok, maybe not the best example... but then again, not even being able to walk down the street with a beer in hand is pretty rediculous of a restriction if you think about it... now, while driving is a different issue, but then you become a public risk.
:roll: Prison population statistics don't tell the whole story. It doesn't take into account countries which institute immediate capital punishment or still implement corporal punishment, it further does not take into account countries which give intentionally low statistical information or countries not developed enough to make accurate estimates, nor does it take into account length of sentences.
Ya, this is true... but we have a 'patriot act' now where you can be deemed a 'domestic terrorist' for violating any 'federal or state law' and then stripped of your constitutional rights.
You have no idea what a ****ing police state actually looks like.
No, but I've learned enough history to see what goes on in a police state, that's I said, we're not in one... but rather a few steps away. Then again, when the time comes it'll be like that quote in 'star wars' : "And so the republic ends not with a wimper, but with thunderous applause."
But since you're so smug on the subject, how about you list the differences between the CURRENT reality of north american life, and a police state. This way I can at least see if your idea of a police state is nothing short of open martial law with troops on the streets.
I think I'll go with parameters; such as, freedom of speech,
Freedom of speech has ended in this country... now it's 'free speech zones' and other similar speech restrictions. Our speech is no longer free, just 'lightly restricted when needed'.
Yes... like we saw in Pittsburgh... where there is video of people sitting on their porches, or on campus being told that they were participating in an 'illegal gathering' and then blasted with a sound cannon, beat up, pepper sprayed and arrested.
Not to mention that the permitted march was denied access to part of the permitted area and then blasted with the sound cannons (that's right before the "anarchists" pushed the trashcans towards the police line)
At least this part is still intact,
True... although most churches have signed away their rights as a religion but instead are 'tax-exempt charities' under the law... 501(c)3
With voting machines designed for ease of fraud, specifically the computerized ones.
the right to due process,
Unless you are charged under patriot act.
