It's a free country?

The backlash has begun...

Charles Clark has announced plans to install new laws in the UK to prevent terrorism. All well and good you'd think, until you read what it is that Mr Clark is proposing.

If these laws are passed by the UK government it will become illegal to...

• Access web sites that contain information on how to make explosives or incendiary devices.
• indirectly incite terrorism.

What right does the government have to tell me, a law abiding person if you don't count the occasional breach of drug laws, what web sites I can access? None. I'm old enough to decide what web sites I access. Being curious as to how you could make something go BANG and carrying out a bombing are two entirely different things.

And exactly what will be construed as speech which "indirectly incites terrorism."

If these new laws are passed it will no longer be legal to state, in a private conversation, that you wish someone would shoot George W Warmonger to save the world from becoming Planet USA. (A sentiment I have found that many people happen to agree with...)

But, then again, if these new laws are put into place George W Warmonger and Tony "lapdog" Blair could be arrested for inciting terrorist activities when UK and US soldiers are told to invade whatever country is next on the map for operation "Get Their Oil."

Wouldn't that be nice.