When you look at the campaigns that British political hacks are using, it all seems very familiar. It's just old-style Soviet Communist propaganda designed to justify increasing police powers to restrict their citizen's movements and to strip away the last laws against unlawful search and seizure. "We must track your movements, and watch you constantly, and search your person under any pretext. You might be a terrorist."
"You object? Why? Are you a terrorist? Why else would you object?"
If you have ever watched any number of You Tube videos coming out of England, you already know that this is a far different country than the USA and even Canada. Cameras monitor you on your own residential street, but making video recordings yourself in public is met with swift threats and harassment by anyone from police officers to street wardens to private security.
These hacks are perfectly aware how asinine their campaigns are, and how ineffective they will be. But, why would they care?
They will have stripped away the liberty of their citizens under the pretext of making them safer.
And, when handmade knives show up in stabbings, they will demand more laws to ban bench grinders from being sold to the public.
It's like when I used to remind people who were staunch advocates of banning handguns that the only real difference between a handgun or a shotgun or a rifle was 15 minutes work with a hacksaw and a file.
They would simply blink and then say: "But, that's illegal."