Next up: laws against people posting lists of dubious laws.

Always thought that it would have been great to see Prince Chuck call for James Hewitt's head as is law.

One extreme or the other. Either you can get away with anything or you can get away with nothing.

There has got to be a balance somewhere.

Oh, yeah, there is, on my own little planet, where the sky is a rainbow and the grass is all rollable.

*sigh*

Well, there's 5 minutes I'll never get back.

Is this news to anyone?

That's why we carry guns on the US.

Also cuz it looks cool.

In 2001 the peace campaigners Lindis Percy and Anni Rainbow were prosecuted for causing "harassment, alarm or distress" to American servicemen at the Menwith Hill military intelligence base in Yorkshire, by standing at the gate holding the Stars and Stripes and a placard reading "George W Bush? Oh dear!" In Hull a protester was arrested under the act for "staring at a building".

Freedom is on the march! Indeed, it is marching away from all of us, going elsewhere as our "leaders" push it away..

If we outlaw squirels, then only outlaws will have squirrels in their trousers.

/at least they'd become fairly obvious

"Down poured the wine like oil on blazing fire. And still the riot went on - the debauchery gained its height - glasses were dashed upon the floor by hands that could not carry them to lips, oaths were shouted out by lips which could scarcely form the words to vent them in; drunken losers cursed and roared; some mounted on the tables, waving bottles above their heads and bidding defiance to the rest; some danced, some sang, some tore the cards and raved. Tumult and frenzy reigned supreme ..." Nicholas Nickleby, by Drew Curtis, 1839.

Wow,
I've never attended a FARK party before!

Thumbscrews for everyone!

I_C_Weener: Is it stillok to impregnate enemy women as is shown in Braveheart?

Of course you are joking but man that movie just ignores history all together. Though Sophie Marceau plays a pretty damn hot 80-something year old.

Is it just me, or have civil liberties in the UK taken a bigger beating under Blair's watch than any damn Tory PM since Maggie?

/correct me if I'm wrong........

Those jammy gits have civil liberties?

GiantRobot: If we outlaw squirels, then only outlaws will have squirrels in their trousers.

You can take my squirrel out of my cold dead and therefore likely defecated-in and urine soaked pants.

flup: That's why we carry guns on the US.

Doesn't seem to be doing you any good...

Crunchy Frog:

Is it just me, or have civil liberties in the UK taken a bigger beating under Blair's watch than any damn Tory PM since Maggie?

Blair has completely destroyed my respect for the Labour Party. He has ruined Labour, and I don't know if even Brown can fix it. Meanwhile, the Tories will probably never get their act together (not that I want them to).

*sigh*

Slip sliding away....

dpr

Blair has completely destroyed my respect for the Labour Party. He has ruined Labour, and I don't know if even Brown can fix it. Meanwhile, the Tories will probably never get their act together (not that I want them to).

Here in the states, there is no YOU in labor.

Do it the old fashioned way. Work hard, become wealthy, buy your liberties.

Wow, that shiat sounds scarier than the Patriot Act.

heh.. at least you're free.

You know, free to uhh..
go on teh interweb!

well, at least until parliment becomes computer literate and realizes that the truth about their country is readily availible there.

Then they'll protect children from porn exposure by imposing a death sentence on anyone found using the internet.

/answering generic uk remark:"All you bloody americans go on and on about how you're so free! We've been 'free' for centuries longer than you've even had a country, but we don't go on about it."

If I were in charge in England, I'd invoke the right of Sacre Noir, like in Braveheart.

"Hey baby, want me to bless your marriage?"

History is going to look back at this as the beginning of the second dark ages.

/does not normally wear a tinfoil hat
//really thinks it's possible

Won't it be fun once everything is illegal? We can just declare Earth to be a prison planet, and everyone's a convict.

flup

That's why we carry guns on the US.

Also cuz it looks cool.

No, you carry guns because there's more insecure pussies then you can shake a stick at. If weaponry had anything to do with protecting your freedoms then you wouldn't be experiencing this current rampage of regression.

Thats right! How could someone as long ago as 1787 know what cool things we would need in our laws today?

/sarcasm off

Crunchy Frog: Is it just me, or have civil liberties in the UK taken a bigger beating under Blair's watch than any damn Tory PM since Maggie?

True. But there's only been one Tory PM since Maggie.

wow that was a depressing article, it's no wonder 1984 is set in england.

More and more politicians wanting to create a combined nanny/police state based on fear and lies.

What's that you say, all politicians are doing it? I am shocked!

I don't care what happens as long as I retain the right to take a flcok of sheep across Bristol suspension bridge on a particular day of the year. I don't know which day I'm allowed to do it on, and I don't own a flock of sheep, but before I die I want to do this. So they better not mess with that particular 'Olde Law'.

If any FARKER has a flock of sheep in the area of Bristol then perhaps you could lend me it.

I'm just waiting from someone to come in here and defend that.

What shock news - a country with no written constitution, a grossly unrepresentative parliament due to an outmoded voting system, a hysterical media, a dictatorial megalomaniac leader and an apathetic, poorly educated population has repressive laws designed to 'protect' the population.

Is it still legal to PV your girlfreind?

Staff at the university were meeting people from BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Shell, the Carlyle Group, GlaxoSmithKline, DuPont, Unilever and Diageo, to learn how to "commercialise university research".

Commercialise university research? Research, paid for by public money?

Yeah, that deserves to be protested. God these people just have no shame at all.

Humpfredo

Freemen can still herd sheep across Tower Bridge, apparently - link. Although the police say the right "no longer applied because there were no livestock markets in the City."

dittybopper, I like your new Fark cliche, much better than moran or the laughing quaker. Thanks :)

The IcelanderIf I were in charge in England, I'd invoke the right of Sacre Noir, like in Braveheart.

Prime Nocte

/somebody say medieval ?

"If weaponry had anything to do with protecting your freedoms then you wouldn't be experiencing this current rampage of regression."


Lol...the hyperbole on fark is always entertaining. Some people have no sense of perspective.

/FDR did more to restrict Civil Liberties than Bush
//So did Lincoln (exiled Ohio's Governor)

What now? Let me tell you what now. I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' attractive and successful African-Americans, who'll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass.

/obligatory
//i guess

hsg:

Commercialise university research? Research, paid for by public money?

Yeah, that deserves to be protested. God these people just have no shame at all.

I believe that concern is that sponsored research can be tainted research. You can argue that point, but should not argue that these people have a right to peacefully argue it as well.

This is one reason that America's constitution is a great thing. These types of laws would be found unconstitutional.

As for the UK Labour party, Blair has farked them up. During the last UK election, I was rooting for the Liberal Democrats. They did well, but they screwed up thier strategy, going after Conservative-held seats more than going after Labour-held ones.

Law & Order In The UK?

Probably wouldn't be that good of an album either.

Damn the fark filter. I can't even post my favorite cliche about Russia when they used to be part of the USSR

I stopped reading the FA when the jackass author compared our modern times with a frickin' piece of Dickens fiction.

/Wilkie Collins, all the way, Baby.

... make that "contrasted"