[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Unless all the news we hear is a big distortion, which it could well be, sounds like you are.

The idea of being arrested for shooting thugs who break into your home is indefensible. Being jailed for beating back a would-be mugger is absurd. But to be rounded up for your speech and thought is insane.
If these things are true, you already are slaves.

[Churchillspirit]

I think it is a case of bad news travels fast.

You make good points regarding what to most of us seem unjust practices, but we are in the middle of a Labour administration. If the Conservatives win the next election things should improve.