Madness Beckons

A War On Terror board game designed in Cambridge has been seized by police who claim the balaclava in the set could be used in a criminal act.

The satirical board game was confiscated along with knives, chisels and bolt cutters, from climate protesters during a series of raids near Kingsnorth power station, in Kent, last week.

The satirical board game was confiscated along with knives, chisels and bolt cutters, from climate protesters during a series of raids near Kingsnorth power station, in Kent, last week.

The board game included a spinner that could land on axis of evil. If the player got that they had to wear a balaclava with the word “evil” on it. The police said that the balaclava could be used to disguise a person’s face and therefore could be used in the commission of a crime.

Read the whole thing here.

I figure the cops wanted to play the game but were too cheap to buy their own.

A poster from the Metropolitan Police’s new advertising awareness campaign, asking the public to be vigilant about people taking photographs.

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Evidently the police in London have gone into full paranoid mode. They are not only harassing amateur photographers they’re encouraging others to do so by instituting a “snitch” program.

Why would you worry about a person carrying a camera when a terrorist could simply and inconspicuously take pictures with his cell phone?

For more details read this.
And for another story read this.

Now – given the level of paranoia shown by those in power – ask yourself how long before the problem in this country goes from the occasional anomaly to a state sponsored program.

 

A while back ATF told Vaune Dillmann -a small brewer- to stop using bottle caps that said “Try Legal Weed.” They said it was a reference to drug use and even funnier that it might mislead consumers into thinking that there is actually marijuana in the beer.
Now somebody has had enough common sense to reverse the decision.

(AP) A Northern California brewer who tangled with federal regulators over the caps on his beer bottles said Tuesday officials have given him permission to keep the message “Try Legal Weed.”

“Based on the context of the entire label, we agree that the phrase in question refers to the brand name of the product and does not mislead consumers,” said the letter, dated July 31.

A message left after-hours for alcohol bureau spokesman Art Resnick in Washington, D.C., was not immediately returned Tuesday.

The dispute started last winter after Dillmann sent the bureau Mt. Shasta Brewing Co.’s proposed label for its latest beer, Lemurian Lager.

He included the same bottle cap he’d been using on his other five brews. This time, the U.S. Treasury branch rejected it because of federal laws that prohibit drug references on alcoholic beverages.

The downside to all this fuss and bother has been massive amounts of stress. The upside is a large increase in sales.

Dillmann also drafted a letter thanking supporters. His message: “Weed fought the law and Weed won!”