Over in the United Kingdom, they have found Ms Samina Malik of the strange crime of owning articles "likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism". Given how many articles can be useful to terrorists, the police in Britain will have some busy times ahead of them as they haul in people who own train timetables, ordnance survey maps, stanley knives, torches, etc.. Ms Malik had downloaded a number of things to the internet that sound basically like today's versions of The Anarchist Cookbook. She also had a copy of some Al Qaeda Manual, a rather crazy version of which can be downloaded from here; I am impressed that Al Qaeda are now so organised that they have a manual for new staff members. Ms Malik has also looked at some strange websites, something people who love freedom never do.
I am struck by how one thing that put the police onto Ms Malik was her having Lyrical Terrorist as an internet name; I'd better watch out next time some member of the clergy is in the news for the wrong reasons.
08 November, 2007
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Thought Crime! 1984! It's a joke, right?
Well, it is a real court case, so for all that this is something of a Lolcrime, Ms Malik is probably not seeing the funny side.
On Clattery MacHinery on Poetry, where this post of yours is linked, there is a call for poetic license, for freedom:
World Samina Malik Day December 6th
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Cheers for the link, Rus.
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