Doesn't that have the ring of Communist Russia? The citizens have no right to bear arms, and machine gun totting authorities make 'sweeps' through neighborhoods confiscating weapons.
England is now everything the UK and the US used to cite as proof that the Soviet Union was unfree.
They would cite and make fun of the requirement to present papers when passing through various security points. Like the Nazis required before them throughout thier occupied territories. Present your papers that show who you are everywhere you go, or it is presumed you have something to hide and are subject to arrest on suspicion of doing something wrong.
Proof of thier authoritarian nature.
Now a requirement to present papers or state issued ID is normal, and similar checkpoints can be and are set up, including random weapon checkpoints.
They used to make fun of how the Soviets tried to spy on everyone, using secret police, and various techniques to learn and verify that what citizens were doing in thier private lives was not something prohibited.
Citing such secret police and spying showed they were authoritarian and unfree, while no such thing was required in a free nation.
Now the UK greatly exceeds anything the Soviets could ever do in that area. They have government monitored and recorded cameras throughout most of society, covering almost all of thier major cities, and even cameras in thier forests!
They have records of most electronic communication, and most methods later adopted in the US are trialed in Britain first.
They spy on thier people in some sophisticated ways. Not just with cameras, but a host of other information. They use facial recognition software, license plate tracking software, and also track the financial records of thier citizens.
The list of ways they keep track of everyone are things the soviets with thier technology of the day could never have accomplished.
I could go own about a list of comparisons of the very things the UN and NATO once cited as proof of Soviet oppression and why England and America were so much better. Things which are considered normal in the UK now, and in fact go beyond the capabilities the Soviets ever had during the cold war to track and control thier citizens.
In fact
it is even illegal now to take pictures of LEO and military in the UK, and you can get up to 10 years in prison for it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29225389/
England is the new authoritarian example for the world.
Even gun rights activists that say the wrong things or have the wrong type of website are now known to disappear as covered in a recent thread on THR. Which is perfectly legal now under thier new anti-terror laws. The population should be terrified of such "anti-terror" legislation.
