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Originally Posted by MargaretR
What is and is not a crime can change according to the whims of the government of the day.
As control tightens on all aspects of our lives, and now includes what you say and think (eg.racism), what makes you think that the control may stop there?
There could come a day when what you wear and how you smell could be regarded as offensive and a 'crime' - sounds extreme doesn't it?, but possible.
In one country, and in my lifetime, it was an offence for persons of one particular religious faith not to wear a visible symbol to indicate that fact.
You may well approve of some behaviour being categorised as 'crime' - such as the rules on wearing seat belts, not phoning whilst driving, not smoking in public places, not disturbing neighbours, but in their drive to increase revenue in fines, who knows what will be a crime next.
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I'll tell you what if GCHQ had to snoop on every Tom Dick or Abdul's emails they be recruiting a hell of a lot more people and using a lot bigger buildings to house um all, like I've always maintain if anybody wants to take a peck into my emails I'll copy um
