I blogged the other day about the way the police misuse terrorism legislation to target journalists, and the public.
You won’t get a better example than this where the Met police warn that people who watch the video of the beheading of an American journalist could be committing a crime.
Of course. That’s exactly what Parliament intended.
Maybe if I write to the Commissioner and tell him that the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 was intended to target terrorism suspects … he will give me a cadetship at Hendon police college?
If he did, I still wouldn’t get in. Because I have 1 per cent of common sense.
Cleland Thom delivers distance learning courses in media law
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