Police state jobsworths strike again

[yorkie]

Video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8384972.stm

BBC News photographer Jeff Overs was stopped and questioned for taking photographs in Westminster.



Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, for which he takes photographs, Mr Overs said he was worried that policing against terrorism was making the UK feel like "the Eastern Bloc".

See also:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8152005.stm

"The Terrorism Act has eroded and destroyed the liberty of the individual in this country." - John Catt

Very true!!! :-x

I think some of them take pleasure in ordering innocent people to stop engaging in perfectly legal activity, because they can justify not being on the streets of crime-ridden estates and can tick various boxes saying that they've done something, without actually achieving anything at all.

This madness has to stop.

 

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Some porter at Charing Cross Station asked me and bighat what we were doing, when I was taking a picture of a EMU. But whats new