• Who are the men in blue? Chinese paramilitary team protects Olympic flame - They wear bright blue tracksuits and Beijing Olympic organizers call them "flame attendants." But a military bearing hints at their true pedigree: paramilitary police sent by Beijing to guard the Olympic flame during its journey around the world.
  Source: CBC News [9th Apr 2008]
• British Police Believed To Be Infiltrated By Al Qaeda Sleeper Agents - Four police officers in Britain’s top force are reportedly under close secret service surveillance after being identified as Al Qaeda spies, it emerged at the weekend.
  Source: Daily Mail [12th Mar 2008]
• 'Terrorist' group who turned out to be the president's men - Diplomats have made a humiliating apology to six Pakistani men close to President Pervez Musharraf's ruling elite after they were wrongly arrested at Gatwick on suspicion of terrorist activity, interrogated and held for 21 hours.
  Source: The Guardian [9th Feb 2008]
• Police stop and search 14,000 since terror attack on airport - Anti-Terror police have carried out more than 14,000 random stop and searches in Scotland in the wake of the Glasgow Airport attack, triggering an unprecedented warning from a government minister of a serious threat to civil liberties.
  Source: The Scotsman [16th Dec 2007]
• Police anti terror searches carried out unlawfully, UK admits - British police carried out a series of stop and searches under the country's Terrorism Act 2000 for almost a month without appropriate authorisation, Security Minister Tony McNulty has acknowledged.
  Source: Mathaba News Agency [16th Dec 2007]
• Met chief calls for more time to hold terror suspects as plots 'mount' - The 28-day detention limit for terrorist suspects should be extended, Britain's most senior police officer told MPs yesterday as he warned of a "mounting" number of plots in the UK.
  Source: The Scotsman [10th Oct 2007]
• In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism - "Back in the midsts of time, when I was a lad and gopher was the height of information retrieval I read The Anarchist's Cookbook in one huge text file. Now it appears the UK government considers possession of the book an offense under the Terrorism Act 2000 and is prosecuting a 17 year old boy , in part, for having a copy of the book. 'The teenager faces two charges under the Terrorism Act 2000. The first charge relates to the possession of material for terrorist purposes in October last year. The second relates to the collection or possession of information useful in the preparation of an act of terrorism.'" ... (The Anarchist Cookbook is still listed by Amazon.co.uk - Ed.)
  Source: Slashdot [8th Oct 2007]

• Reagan official warns America could be a police state within 1 year. - This video is a radio broadcast interview of Paul Craig Roberts, he was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. This is NOT some conspiracy theorist/some guy off the street. People laugh at the worries of some people that Bush is being given too much power, but this guy is saying the US is in danger of becoming a police state within one year.
  Source: Don't Fear The Truth (22nd Aug 2007)

• Cleric airs 'police state' fears - The Archbishop of York has warned that the government's anti-terror measures are in danger of moving Britain "close to a police state".
  Source: BBC News (5th Feb 2007)
• Police 'not fit to beat crime and terrorism' - Many police forces are unfit to deal with the problems of the 21st century, according to a damning report which says that organised crime is flourishing and drug abuse more widespread than commonly acknowledged.
  Source: The Times (17th Sep 2005)
• Beware of the thought police
  Britain has a proud tradition of free speech but say what you think today and you can find yourself on the wrong side of the law, says John-Paul Flintoff.
  Source: The Sunday Times

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