The Slippery Slope part 2

Tony's Minority Report

Police want power to crack down on offensive demo chants and slogans

· Present curbs are too light, Met chief to tell Goldsmith
· Rights groups say officers would be 'censors in chief'

Police are to demand new powers to arrest protesters for causing offence through the words they chant and the slogans on their placards and even headbands.

The country's biggest force, the Metropolitan police, is to lobby the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, because officers believe that large sections of the population have become increasingly politicised, and there is a growing sense that the current restrictions on demonstrations are too light.

Trouble at recent protests involving Islamic extremists has galvanised the Met's assistant commissioner, Tarique Ghaffur, into planning a crackdown. His proposals are due to be sent to Lord Goldsmith, who is reviewing how effective the current laws are in tackling extremists.

How soon till we see the Thought Police?

Fascism will have an easier time taking root here than in the US, and we don't have one codified constitution, none of our rights are guaranteed, basically we have a gentleman's agreement only the gentlemen have left the room.

The organizational Leninists of ‘new’ Labour are no friends of liberty.