Freedom to film

Via Mark Wadsworth and the UK Libertarian Blog, I see the Lilliputians are at it again, preventing an elderly lady from photographing an empty paddling pool, on the grounds that such activity is suspicious - she might be a paedophile you see. I suggest the only person showing signs of perversion is the council 'official'. Only a twisted fuck-up would ever have the thought cross his mind that the lady in question wanted to abuse children. She should have slapped his face.

Photographing in public is not against the law, as shown in the clip above, and this needs to be explained to the increasingly bullying authorities.

Council officials fine smoking driver

If you create petty laws, then petty people will arise to enforce them and will do so with glee, such as those working at Ceredigion Council in Wales, who issued a £30 ticket to one Gordon Williams, a painter and decorator, for smoking a cigarette in his own van.

What a contemptible shower of shite these people are! I urge my readers to phone and complain. We must begin making it more difficult for these Lilliputian tyrants. Their website has the number of a snitch line for the public to report offences, and the actions of their staff are certainly offensive. Try their ' Smoke-Free Compliance Line' on 0845 3002525 or the main Council switchboard on 01545 572105.

This kind of incremental suffocation by officials, and the public's willingness to acquiesce in their own degradation is finely illustrated by the Chaser's Citizen's Infringement Officer, here doling out fines for number plates he doesn't like:

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