The World Is Going Nuts

Governments both national and local are using the spread of terrorism as an excuse to increase security and to spread a police state. We lose our freedoms to live our lives without government interference gradually, without paying much attention. Nowhere is this problem worse than in the UK.

From Boing Boing (click the link to read the whole story).

British cops spotted a Facebook message from a small-town guy who announced an "all-night" party at his house -- a BBQ to celebrate his birthday -- and so they scrambled an armed, helicopter-borne Delta force in body armor to break up the event under Britain's Draconian anti-rave laws. The party had 15 people at it, eating hamburgers. They hadn't put on any music. The police claim that sending out the chopper and the goon squad saved money, compared to what it would have cost to break it up if it had turned into a full-blown, multi-thousand person rave.