I wonder what Gordon Brown and his chums have planned for us next

If they have been watching what's happening in the US then it could be a thought crime prevention bill. The US House of Representatives recently passed a bill called the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007". Sounds perfectly reasonable doesn't it? After all we are all against homegrown terrorism. However there is at least one worrying aspect of the legislation and that is the definition of Violent Radicalization - "The term `violent radicalization' means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change." The this definition of violent radicalization could allow a government the laxity to define it as the promotion of any belief system that the government considers to be an extremist agenda. This would be the perfect weapon for our increasingly totalitarian Government and its even more controlling European Union masters to be. The EU like thought crime legislation and would happily use it against anyone who opposes the EU. Alongside the aforementioned arrest warrant, EU ministers have previously proposed a new directive to establish a common set of offences, to criminalise xenophobia and racism. The definition of xenophobia would include being against the EU.