http://www.nickharkaway.com/2009/06/policeviolence/ Website and blog of Nick Harkaway, author of “The Gone-Away World”. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:54:57 -0700 hourly 1 http://www.nickharkaway.com/2009/06/policeviolence/comment-page-1/#comment-1452 Alan Goodwin Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:58:33 +0000 http://www.nickharkaway.com/?p=2189#comment-1452 It looks very much like we're all in a lot of trouble if this becomes standard police procedure; which clearly it is already. Journos and peaceful protestors need armour and pepper spray to even out the odds and exercise the right to free speech. God knows that right gets less exercise than I do; and that's not very much at all. Whither atrophy? Right in the middle of civil liberty. That's where. It looks very much like we’re all in a lot of trouble if this becomes standard police procedure; which clearly it is already. Journos and peaceful protestors need armour and pepper spray to even out the odds and exercise the right to free speech. God knows that right gets less exercise than I do; and that’s not very much at all. Whither atrophy? Right in the middle of civil liberty. That’s where.

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