Non Binge-Drinkers: Kiss Your Rights Goodbye Too.

Anyone with an incling of interest in their fundamental freedom will of course have been concerned by the missuse of terrorism legislation since it was introduced by our Labour government. As well as being used to combat what we're force fed to believe by the government to be an omnipresent terrorist threat, the legislation has been used to curtail the right to protest and assembly. It's been used to increase detention powers of the police despite a total lack of justification and it's been used by local councils to investigate ambitious parents wishing to send their children to certain over-achieving or even just over-subscribed schools.

It should also then be of great concern to many that under proposed legislation to tackle binge drinking and presumably alcohol related anti-social behaviour in general that the government is proposing to allow the police to stop and demand ID from people on the street without any suspission of a crime being committed whatsoever. Presumably those "viz their papers in order" will be allowed to continue to go about their presumably sobre business. What worries me is what would happen to those "vizout their papers in order".

The net effect is that one could be walking along the street minding one's own business and doing nothing wrong, could be stopped and arrested or maybe fined for not having ID. If arrested, one could then be held under terrorist legislation for up to 28 days without charge. Now I don't know about anyone else but in an environment where targets are imposed on our police force by the government in a bid to prove to us, the public that things are actually being done, this has the potential to shift the balance of freedom even further away from us and that makes me livid.