[...] the blog was "being used to undertake criminal activities". [...] The Fitwatch blogpost, which last night had reappeared on several other websites, recommended that students "get rid" of clothes they wore at the demonstration and change their appearance.
"If you don't want to get convicted, then don't get caught!" Here, free advice to "undertake criminal activies". Will this blog be closed now, by friendly request from officers of the Met, elected by no one, answerable to no one, following no written law or due process involving judges or magistrates?
And Cameron dares criticise China on matters of free speech:
David Cameron tells China: embrace freedom and the rule of law (Guardian, Wednesday 10 November 2010)
A small reminder of the kind of police thuggery that motivates groups like Fit Watch:
Arrested for asking a policeman for his badge number (Guardian, Sunday 21 June 2009)
Update:
FITWatch: We're Back... (Melon Farmers, 17th November, 2010)
When the law is unjust, civil disobedience becomes a moral imperative.
