Blogs, liberty and happiness

As Walter Wolfgang has discovered, events on 7th July will be used to justify anti-terror action against anyone who might disagree with the government line. This legislation has already been applied to... people protesting against the legislation, of course. In the States meanwhile, the Federal Election Commission has taken a lead from China, Myanmar and Saudia Arabia among others in considering ways to restrict the political content of Blogs.
It's hard to comment about the loss of freedom of speech, but allow me a moment to say that the people who came up with these ideas are a bunch of ignorant mother-fuckers.