Reading through the Guardian update page, I saw a quote from this blog which I thought was really well put and so here is a link to that blog. It succinctly summarises the Miranda detention and quite accurately makes the argument that Britain now is really no different to somewhere like Russia in terms of freedoms.

Cameron Proves Greenwald Right « The Dish

When things like this start to happen and Cameron himself is filling in time by waffling on about cyber bullying. Well, this is intimidation just as bad as any of that. You can go to a British airport, be detained as a 'terrorist', they will steal your possessions, extract all of your private information, and give you a bloody hard time. It is a joke and sure, some might make the predictable argument that it is bad, but better than other places. Is that really good enough though? 'Oh, but at at least we only kettle protestors and arrest any that don't ask for permission first. We don't just shoot them like some other states'. It just gets silly when you go down those paths. So country B is bad, but as long as we don't quite go so far then in the great scheme of things we as country A are still pretty good. 'You know in Libya they would just torture him' they say. Well, I guess we should just detain everybody and steal their items and duplicate the information, just as long as we don't torture them. After all torture is just what we do in illegal invasions of other states, not to the partners of journalists.