As the UK becomes a police state, George Orwell spins in his grave

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Two articles, second one excerpted. I know there isn't any viable party in the UK other than Labour right now, but how much more of this is it going to take to force a change of party leadership?

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/hampshire/southampton/news/SOTON_NEWS_NEWS0.html
M-way photos fall foul
by Ushma Mistry

A HAMPSHIRE student was stopped and warned by police under new anti-terror laws - for taking pictures of the M3.

Matthew Curtis had been gathering images for the website of a design company where he works part-time when he was stopped, searched and cautioned.

The 21-year-old was told that he was in a "vulnerable area" as he snapped pictures of the M3 and was made to account for his actions before he was issued with a warning and told not to do it again.

Officers, who had quoted the Prevention of Terrorism Act, today apologised for causing concern but say they were just being vigilant.

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17909-1829289,00.html

Two wheels: good. Two legs: terrorist suspect
By David Lister, Scotland Correspondent
WITH her year-round tan, long blonde hair and designer clothes, Sally Cameron does not look like a threat to national security.

But the 34-year-old property developer has joined the ranks of Britain’s most unlikely terrorist suspects after being held for hours for trespassing on a cycle path.

Ms Cameron was being hailed yesterday as Scotland’s answer to Walter Wolfgang, the 82-year-old heckler manhandled out of the Labour Party conference last month. She was arrested under the Terrorism Act for walking along a cycle path in the harbour area of Dundee.

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Keith Berry, the harbour master at Forth Ports Dundee, said yesterday that Ms Cameron had been seen as a “security risk”. Speaking about the incident, which took place in May, he said: “We contacted the police in regards to this matter because the woman was in a secure area which forbids people walking. It was seen as a security risk. We were following guidelines in requirement with the port security plan set up by the Government.”

A spokesman for Forth Ports said: “We will robustly prosecute anyone who breaches these new security measures because they have been introduced by the Government and we are obliged to enforce them.”

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The fellow in Hampshire was a fool to accept the caution, by the way. He should have made them take him to court. I have no doubt they'd have dropped the charges.