Tuesday, September 30, 2008

UK: First They Came For Our Guns...

...then moved to knives, and now they've started on sticks.

They must have known he was a troublemaker the moment they saw him.
With his white hair, wax jacket and glasses, 78-year-old Philip Clarkson Webb clearly ticked all the boxes any eagle-eyed policemen would mark as 'danger'.
And as he shuffled along the pavement towards them there was one thing above all they deemed to pose a threat - his walking stick.


Yep, the police took the cane away from a 78-year-old man. Then, to add insult to injury, they lost the cane, even though they'd given him a receipt for it.

Is it any wonder that, in the same edition of the Daily Mail, is an article on how native Britons are emigrating to places like Australia, New Zealand and Canada?

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