Mark, as I noted earlier on this thread, it's for the discussion of civil rights and specifically British issues. We know about your problems in America. We hear about them endlessly, tediously, and at length, because you constitute about 70% of the English-as-a-first-language world and you've got the rest of the internet for your introspective use. Give it a rest, eh? Unless you want to discuss how policy positions corrosive to civil rights in different countries are globalized by specific treaty negotiations and lobbying issues, or how the definition of "freedom" is a movable feast, or something equally original, we don't need to hear it.