Another reason I'm glad to live in the free world...

...and not in the Orwellian nightmare into which George W. Bush and his cronies are rapidly converting the proud nation formerly known as the Land of the Brave and the Home of the Free.

If you are American and this does not scare the living shit out of you, then I recommend that you try exchanging whatever medication you're on for black, unsugared coffee, start listening to Henry Rollins and Steve Earle and get mad real quick. Because if you don't adopt Henry's mantra and shout "Not on my watch!", you can't complain when the grim reality of the systematic dismantling of the freedoms your nation has been proud of for two hundred years hits you full in the face.

Over here in the United Kingdom, our government is trying to impose something similar but because they cannot railroad such legislation through Parliament without debate the way this is happening in America, we get the opportunity to tell Grinning Tony to bite our collective black, white and brown arses.