The Criminal Justice Bill...

The Criminal Justice Bill..., originally uploaded by londoninflames.

Where's this from I wonder? Never mind, the underground press was full of this sort of stuff in 93 and 94, desperately trying to point out to as many people as possible what the CJA actually meant. In many ways it was the precursor of the erosion of civil rights that has gone on since then. In these less innocent days it seems bizarre to have the freedoms that we had before the CJB, and whenever I hear anyone carping about the smoking ban and the nanny state and the thin edge of the wedge whatnot, I find myself wondering where they were fifteen years ago when this all began. The thin edge of the wedge came when this bill was proposed (although some would say it began when Thatcher smashed the Unions), smoking is only somewhere in the middle. After all, you can't legitimately protest against the smoking ban any more innit!