Originally Posted by Tipsy

On the presumption that it's true (yet to see anything to prove that although it sounds more than plausible) this Potter idiot and those like him are the reason all this crap gets through. It's only one part of a huge string of civil liberty and privacy crap pulled by the government because of terrorism'. Sadly though there are a lot of people like Potter i.e. without the intelligence or ability to see the bigger picture.

There's a fairly famous quote around somewhere about a guy who ignores the gradual erosions of freedom until there's only him left so then it's him they target. Wish I could remember it as it puts the whole thing into perspective. It ends something like 'then they came for me'.