Arrested For Reading “Illegal Documents”
The UK is now arresting people for downloading “illegal documents” - from a well known terrorist organisation, the US government. This is via Richard’s blog:
[The UK state is] announcing their intention to imprison people for what they read. These tyrants are the real threat. Britons, don’t let the tyrants distract you by pointing at other minor enemies, while they attack your freedom.
From the Guardian article:
Rizwaan Sabir, 22, was held for nearly a week under the Terrorism Act, accused of downloading the materials for illegal use. … “they read me a statement confirming it was an illegal document which shouldn’t be used for research purposes. To this day no one has ever clarified that point.” … A spokesman for Nottingham University said … it was “not legitimate research material” but later amended that view, saying: “If you’re an academic or a registered student then you have very good cause to access whatever material your scholarship requires. But there is an expectation that you will act sensibly within current UK law and wouldn’t send it on to any Tom, Dick or Harry.”
Well, good old Cryptome published the links to “the edited FBI-alleged Al Qaeda Training Manual from DoJ http://usdoj.gov/ag/manualpart1_1.pdf” and “The full FBI-Alleged Al Qaeda Training Manual From Cryptome http://cryptome.org/alq-terr-man.htm.”
Be sensible and don’t click those links if your name is Tom Dick or Harry, eh?
The Arrested For Reading “Illegal Documents” by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
May 27, 2008 |
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