The government is criminalising legitimate dissent under the guise of fighting ‘extremism’, a word for which it has no definition

Seumas Milne Guardian U.K. 2/16/09

For most of the past century, Britain’s secret state bugged, blacklisted and spied on leftists, trade unionists and peace campaigners, as well as Irish republicans and anyone else regarded as a “subversive” threat to the established order. (more…)