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<p align="center"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.scriptonitedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ps4.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1955" alt="PS4" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.scriptonitedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ps4.jpg?resize=300%2C289" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a> </span></p>
<p>The UK Government is about to pass legislation which will make any behaviour perceived to potentially ‘cause nuisance or annoyance’ a criminal offence. The <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2013-2014/0007/cbill_2013-20140007_en_4.htm#pt3-l1g36">Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill</a> also grants <a href="http://www.manifestoclub.com/files/ASBpowers.pdf">local authorities, police and even private security firms sweeping powers to bar citizens from assembling lawfully in public spaces</a>. The Bill has successfully passed through the House of Commons without issue, and is now in the latter stages of review by the <a href="http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/antisocialbehaviourcrimeandpolicingbill.html">House of Lords</a>, after which it will receive Royal Assent and become Law. Those who refuse orders under the new rules will face arrest, fines and even prison time.</p>
<p align="center"><b>The Ever Increasing Powers </b></p>
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<p>Since the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jan/13/crime-disorder-act">Crime and Disorder Act 1998</a>, which introduced <a href="http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/human-rights/justice/asbos-and-civil-orders/index.php">Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs)</a> the government has invented and legislated for a litany of such orders covering everything from dog poo to drug addiction, including but not limited to: <a href="http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/human-rights/terrorism/control-orders/index.php">Control Orders</a>; <a href="http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/human-rights/terrorism/control-orders/index.php">Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Orders</a>; <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/intervention-orders">Intervention Orders</a>; <a href="http://guildhallchambers.co.uk/uploads/docs/section9/CrackHouseClosuresHAS05.pdf">Crack House Closure Orders</a>; <a href="http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/a_to_c/closure_of_premises_associated_with_persistent_disorder_or_nuisance/">Premise Closure Orders</a>; <a href="http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/opinion/comment/amend-brothel-closure-laws-now">Brothel Closure Orders</a>; <a href="https://www.gov.uk/injunctions-to-prevent-gang-related-violence">Gang Related Violence Injunctions</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_Public_Places_Order">Designated Public Place Orders</a>; <a href="http://www.cans.org.uk/notes/housing/landlord-and-tenant-miscellaneous-provisions/28-when-a-management-order-may-be-made">Special Interim Management Orders</a>; <a href="http://www.ramblers.org.uk/wales/what-we-do/ramblers-position-on/gating-orders.aspx">Gating Orders</a>; <a href="http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Dogs-facing-ban-parks-recreation-grounds/story-16235797-detail/story.html#axzz2Zy8D2y87">Dog Control Orders</a>; <a href="http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/pdfs/policy13/liberty-s-briefing-on-the-draft-anti-social-behaviour-bill-feb-2013-.pdf">Letter Clearing Notices</a>; <a href="https://www.gov.uk/how-to-resolve-neighbour-disputes/complain-about-noise-to-the-council">Noise Abatement Orders</a>; <a href="http://archive.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/local/legislation/cnea/documents/defacement.pdf">Graffiti/Defacement Removal Notices</a>; <a href="http://www.tmg-uk.org/?p=1362">Directions to Leave</a> and <a href="http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/2133-dispersal-orders.pdf">Dispersal Orders</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2013-2014/0007/cbill_2013-20140007_en_4.htm#pt3-l1g36">Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill</a>, purports to simplify this legacy of New Labour’s legislative promiscuity. In reality, it creates a series of wildly ambiguous, generic orders which <a href="http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/pdfs/policy13/liberty-s-briefing-on-the-draft-anti-social-behaviour-bill-feb-2013-.pdf">grant officers of the state and private sector even greater powers to issue tougher sentences, with fewer checks and balances to protect citizens</a>.</p>
<p align="center"><b>Being Annoying is now Illegal</b></p>
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<p>The Bill introduces Injunctions to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance (IPNAS) to replace ABSO’S. Almost no one will be sad to say goodbye to ASBO’s. The orders, designed to allow police to tackle anti-social behaviour, simply became a means of criminalising youthful indiscretion &#8211; and eventually a means of criminalising anything people found annoying. Some of the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmhaff/80/80we20.htm">bizarre abuses of this power</a> include:</p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Stuart Hunt of Loch Ness brought to court </span><a style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2370088/Man-fighting-Asbo-stop-clapping-slowly-accuses-police-conspiracy-hauling-courts-100-times-breaching--led-conviction.html">100 times since 2007 for breaching an ASBO preventing him from laughing, staring or slow hand clapping</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">.</span></li>
<li>Homeless, alcoholic and mentally ill <a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com/homeless-alcoholic-s-99-year-asbo-absurd-1.896970">Michael Gilligan</a> given a 99 year ASBO rather than the welfare support that might have made a difference</li>
<li>A profoundly deaf <a href="http://www.cypnow.co.uk/cn/news/1023373/asbos-breach-children-custody">17 year old girl</a> given an ASBO and a jail sentence for spitting in the street</li>
<li>A <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmhaff/80/80we20.htm">13 year old</a> banned from using the word ‘grass’ in England or Wales</li>
<li><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmhaff/80/80we20.htm">Manchester Council</a> applied an ASBO to prevent a mobile soup kitchen from feeding the homeless</li>
<li>Councils <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmhaff/80/80we20.htm">placing ASBOs on homeless people resulting in prison sentences for begging ‘earnestly and humbly’</a></li>
<li>An <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmhaff/80/80we20.htm">87 year old man</a> was given an ASBO threatening a prison sentence if he was sarcastic to his neighbours.</li>
</ul>
<p>The ASBO has allowed the line between criminal behaviour and annoying behaviour to become hopelessly blurred – and the IPNAs will only serve to increase the problem. We have seen the abuses permitted under ASBO legislation, the test for which included wording to the effect that ASBOs could only be issued where an actual act of ‘<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9829532/Children-face-court-action-for-being-annoying-under-new-Asbo-scheme.html">harassment, alarm or distress’</a> had occurred. IPNAs have a much weaker test, applicable where on the ‘balance of probabilities’ a person <a href="http://www.steeleslaw.co.uk/news/injunction-to-prevent-nuisance-and-annoyance">has <b>or might</b> engage in behaviour ‘capable of causing annoyance’ to another person</a>. How many times a day could this legislation apply to any of us? Eating with our mouths open, talking too loudly into our phones in a public space, walking too slowly or quickly or belching without saying ‘pardon me’. All of this may very well cause annoyance – but soon it might well also be illegal.</p>
<p>The orders can be issued to anyone aged 10 or over (and we all know how well 10 year olds are at being annoying), and there is <a href="http://www.steeleslaw.co.uk/news/injunction-to-prevent-nuisance-and-annoyance">no limit </a>on how long an IPNA can be applied to a person for. A person could receive an IPNA aged 10 and retain it their entire life.</p>
<p>Whereas an ASBO could only desist the subject from certain actions, the IPNA includes <a href="http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/pdfs/policy13/liberty-s-briefing-on-the-draft-anti-social-behaviour-bill-feb-2013-.pdf">‘positive obligations’</a> (p10). This means the subject of an IPNA can be found in breach not simply for <b>doing</b> things they have been banned from doing, but from <b>not doing</b> things that the IPNA states they must. This makes an IPNA much closer to probation and other post-conviction arrangements than a civil order.</p>
<p>An IPNA can be applied for by <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9829532/Children-face-court-action-for-being-annoying-under-new-Asbo-scheme.html">Local Authorities, police, some transport bodies and some NHS authorities.</a></p>
<p>The consequences of breaching an IPNA are serious. The breaching of an IPNA has been added to the conditions for securing possession of a home – meaning <a href="http://www.steeleslaw.co.uk/news/injunction-to-prevent-nuisance-and-annoyance">a 10 year old child breaching their IPNA could result in the entire family being evicted from their council house</a>. Breaching the orders can also result in <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9829532/Children-face-court-action-for-being-annoying-under-new-Asbo-scheme.html">jail time for anyone over 14</a>.</p>
<p>Even the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), giving evidence on the proposals, argued that this could lead to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9829532/Children-face-court-action-for-being-annoying-under-new-Asbo-scheme.html">further criminalisation of children and called on the government to think again</a>.</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/13/asbo-ipna-punish-children-unnecessarily">letter</a> to the Observer, Children&#8217;s Commissioner Dr Maggie Atkinson and a host of children&#8217;s charities wrote &#8220;&#8221;We acknowledge that antisocial behaviour can blight the lives of individuals and communities, but this bill is not the answer. It promotes intolerance of youth, is a blow for civil liberties and will damage children&#8217;s relationship with the police. Children learn the importance of right and wrong from their parents, teachers and communities. We do not need to create more laws to do it.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the plans move along unaltered.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>Kiss Goodbye to Freedom of Assembly</b></p>
<p><a href="http://i0.wp.com/www.scriptonitedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ps7.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1958 aligncenter" alt="PS7" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.scriptonitedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ps7.jpg?resize=282%2C300" data-recalc-dims="1" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.libdemvoice.org/opinion-antisocial-behaviour-bill-set-to-restrict-public-protest-35316.html">Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs)</a>, and new Dispersal Orders will replace Designated Public Space Orders, Dog Control Orders, Gating Orders and a host of other orders intended to keep aggressive drunken people, or drug dealers or dog poo off of our streets. But it is plain that the target for these laws is no longer the person peddling illegal drugs, but the people sharing politically challenging ideas.</p>
<p>These new powers present the most significant threat to lawful assembly and protest in modern history.</p>
<p><i>Public Space Protection Orders</i></p>
<p>PSPOs will be granted where <a href="http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/pdfs/policy13/liberty-s-briefing-on-the-draft-anti-social-behaviour-bill-feb-2013-.pdf">‘activities carried on <b>or likely</b> to be carried on in a public place will have or have had a detrimental effect on the quality of life of those in the locality’</a> (p21). They can be used to <a href="http://www.manifestoclub.com/files/ASBpowers.pdf">restrict an activity or require people to perform an activity in a certain way</a>. They require substantially <a href="http://www.manifestoclub.com/files/ASBpowers.pdf">less consultation</a> than current alcohol free zones or dog control zones and rather than applying to everyone, they <a href="http://www.manifestoclub.com/files/ASBpowers.pdf">can be applied to specific groups of people</a> (the homeless, the unemployed, racial/religious groups etc.) – opening the door for discrimination. These rules could see homeless people or young people lawfully excluded from public spaces.</p>
<p>PSPOs are subject to <a href="http://www.manifestoclub.com/files/ASBpowers.pdf">‘on the spot’ fines, rather than attendance at a Magistrates Court</a>, reducing the scrutiny and checks on police power.</p>
<p>These orders are also by no means short term. They can be applied for <a href="http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/pdfs/policy13/liberty-s-briefing-on-the-draft-anti-social-behaviour-bill-feb-2013-.pdf">up to three years, and continued for another three years at the end of their term</a>.</p>
<p>The orders have been heavily challenged by <a href="http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/pdfs/policy13/liberty-s-briefing-on-the-draft-anti-social-behaviour-bill-feb-2013-.pdf">Liberty</a> and <a href="http://www.manifestoclub.com/files/ASBpowers.pdf">The Manifesto Club</a> on the basis that they will seriously infringe upon people’s freedom to assemble, associate and protest. The <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmpublic/antisocialbehaviour/memo/asb17.htm">Ramblers</a> (the walking charity) have also given written evidence to the government raising their fears about the further appropriation of public highways, by ways and footpaths under the PSPO powers.</p>
<p><i>Dispersal Orders</i></p>
<p>Under the current <a href="http://www.tmg-uk.org/?p=1362">Direction to Leave</a> powers, anyone over 10 years of age can be asked to disperse from a ‘locality’ and stay dispersed for a period <a href="http://www.tmg-uk.org/?p=1362">not exceeding 48 hours</a>. Current Dispersal Orders mean a Police Superintendent (or an officer with specific written authority from the SI) can <a href="http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/d_to_g/dispersal_orders/">disperse groups of two or more people in areas where there has been ‘persistent anti-social behaviour’ or take home any young person under the age of 16 who is in a dispersal zone between 9pm and 6am</a>. Anyone failing to comply with a Dispersal Order faces a fine of up to <a href="http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/d_to_g/dispersal_orders/">£2,500</a> or up to <a href="http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/d_to_g/dispersal_orders/">three months in prison</a>.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Downing Street clearly do not feel this is tough enough.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The new Dispersal Powers mean police constables and even Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) can issue dispersal orders if they </span><b style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">think </b><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">a group of two or more persons</span><b style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> might </b><a style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" href="http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/pdfs/policy13/liberty-s-briefing-on-the-draft-anti-social-behaviour-bill-feb-2013-.pdf">harass, alarm or distress others in the vicinity (p16).</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> The PCSO or constable can specify how long the person/group must remain out of the designated area, and by which route they must leave, and also confiscate any items of their property which they deem anti-social. Failure to comply with any element of these orders results in a fine of up to </span><a style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" href="http://dringhousesandwoodthorpeward.mycouncillor.org.uk/2013/06/28/dispersal-order-introduced-today-in-central-york-big-change-to-police-powers/">£5,000 or three months in prison</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">. The new legislation also fails to define ‘locality’ – meaning </span><a style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" href="http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/pdfs/policy13/liberty-s-briefing-on-the-draft-anti-social-behaviour-bill-feb-2013-.pdf">a person could be excluded from a city, a county or even a whole country</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> (p17). In fact, York couldn’t even wait for the new legislation to pass and is </span><a style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" href="http://dringhousesandwoodthorpeward.mycouncillor.org.uk/2013/06/28/dispersal-order-introduced-today-in-central-york-big-change-to-police-powers/">already implementing the powers.</a></p>
<p>These new laws effectively end freedom of assembly in England and Wales, as any lawful assembly can be instantly redefined as illegal on the spot by some part time PCSO, people’s personal possessions can be confiscated, and anyone who dares to challenge the process will end up in jail.</p>
<p align="center"><b>What will it Take?</b></p>
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<p>One could be forgiven for despairingly enquiring <b><i>‘what will it take for the slumbering British public to awake to the fact that the legal and physical infrastructure of a police state is being built around them?’ </i></b></p>
<p>Many believe they have rights to protest, assemble and associate that they <a href="http://www.scriptonitedaily.com/2013/03/19/police-state-uk-the-rights-you-didnt-know-youd-lost/">lost a decade ago</a>, simply because they have never actually attempted to claim these rights. They remain imaginary freedoms, never cashed in. As someone who has found themselves arrested, locked up and later cleared by a court twice in recent years for peaceful protest (see<a href="http://www.scriptonitedaily.org/2011/11/voices-from-occupation-5th-november.html"> 1st</a> and <a href="http://www.scriptonitedaily.org/2012/07/the-total-policing-of-critical-mass-eye.html">2nd</a> arrests) &#8211; I discovered for myself how much things had changed while I wasn&#8217;t looking. So without getting everyone to attend a protest and get arrested, we rely on communicating the changes to those who might not experience them directly.</p>
<p>But while the BBC, our main broadcaster, has devoted its resources to stick a correspondent up the arse of anyone with the faintest connection to the Royal Baby – no such resources have been devoted to informing on the curtailing of our most basic freedoms. Defenders of the BBC may argue they are there to cover the news, not make it – this is an outright lie.</p>
<p>The Media create stories as well as cover them, many people glean what is important from how much it is being talked about on the news and in the papers. Imagine if journalists were door-stepping David Cameron, human rights campaigners and police authorities all day every day asking what on earth was going to happen with our human rights? If the pages of our newspapers were not filled with fury over imaginary benefit cheats and immigrants, but our eroded civil liberties? Things would look very, very different.</p>
<p>In the meantime, it’s up to all of us with an interest to shout it from the roof tops. We have a hell of a fight on our hands here, and most folks still don’t even know it.</p>
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<p>The masses should take up arms against the metropolitan police force and judiciary that declares itself above the law.theirs and political corruption should not be tolerated.</p>
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<p>This is the death of democracy as we know it, cameron and his bully boys have finally killed it off. Free speech is dead and we are now under a despot who needs to be gotten rid of.</p>
<p>They have almost killed the sick and disabled, pensioners and low paid, unemployed.</p>
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<p>pls add whistleblower and ruby cooper FRAMED by met police 15 TIMES, framed and criminalised by abuse of the criminal justice system 5 times for COMPLAINING ABOUT POLICE RACISM AND CORRUPTION after they refused to help her when she was being stalked by a natwest rbs employee she didn;t know !</p>
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<p>&#8220;If 19 pages of today’s Sun (news)paper &#8221;<br />
For (news), read (toilet).</p>
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<p>This should be allowed to be law, protesters are most annoying fecking people, costing us taxpayers a fortune coz they are mostly a bunch of dope heads,unemployed and have no interest in being like the rest of the nation, in other words, a bunch of long haired people who carry placards and make a lot of noise about a load of nothing interseting, dont fine them, lock the feckers up and keep them there.</p>
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<p>You sir, are a moron. People like yourself are what is wrong with this country. Making judgments such as that without no knowledge what so ever on the matter, go back to your hole. Too an extent I agree that protests cost tax payers money in extra policing etc, however what about all the other things that the government waste taxpayers money on? Not to mention if you actually had the slightest bit of intelligence and mere observation skills, you would realize that most protests consists of a wide variety of people, young, old, employed, unemployed, long hair, short hair, male and female. Then to state that they are mostly a bunch of dope heads? Get your act together, I can probably guarantee any single individual you look up has done some form of drug previously. No interest in being like the rest of the nation? Depends what &#8220;part&#8221; you are on about, if you mean those that have no back bone, or feel that its just a waste of time to stand up for yourselves on the stupid legislation&#8217;s and every part of your life being monitored and store in systems,, then sure I can completely agree why they have no interest in being part of the rest of the nation. </p>
<p>The numbers are vastly growing sir, more and more people are acknowledging the continuous problems within this country and damn straight they are going to do something about it;.</p>
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<p>Ha ha, is this comment serious? Do you not believe in democracy then (not that we really have one these days but the powers that be pretend we do)? Would you prefer to live under a dictatorship? Would you have preferred to live under, say General Pinochet backed by the CIA? You really need to learn to not stereo-type or generalise people and that protesters and marchers are out to protect the things that effect us all or huge parts of society such as protecting the NHS (or would you prefer an insurance based healthcare system where you can become bankrupt if you develop a serious disease), would you prefer to be paying Poll Tax right now then too? Would you prefer women stay in the home and not let them have the vote or any kind of equality or contribute to society? Would you be happy that disabled people (even war veterans) are just left to their own devices and have no financial support? Do you think the banks should continue to rip us all off just so they can keep buying their nice yachts and flash cars? I don&#8217;t think you really know what you&#8217;re talking about and I feel a bit sorry for you as you seem to live in such a narrow world of anger and fear.</p>
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<p>Oh, do shut up.</p>
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<p>Your a policeman/doorman who&#8217;s got an anger issue right?</p>
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<p>your comment was really annoying, so I guess I&#8217;ll report you, so expect a visit from the Sheriff and a trip to jail. Seriously, you annoy me and I have had enough of it.</p>
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<p>If they are all &#8216;dopeheads&#8217; then you don&#8217;t need further laws do you, thicko.</p>
<p>Having long hair isn&#8217;t a crime; if it was women&#8217;s prisons would be fit to bursting.</p>
<p>Obvious troll is obvious.</p>
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<p>I find your attitude and name calling annoying. You do realize that you, too, are subject to the application of this law, right? If I heard you spewing this hate, profanity, and disrespect on the street, I&#8217;d fully expect you to be ordered removed.</p>
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<p>Fluoride, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s in the water.</p>
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<p>Signed, tweeted and Facebooked</p>
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<p>Thanks for highlighting the erosion of liberty moving us towards a Police state Scriptonite. There must besomething in thewater for people not to see we are moving towards a privatised state where centralised corporations actually run the country, police, jails etc, we own nothing ahd pay for everything.Are most of us going to leave it until we are handing over £100 in cash to some G4S goon because our 10 year old dropped a sweet wrapper or talked too loud to protest? Way too late then&#8230;.</p>
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