Not much, it seems :(
We've had a lot of rights removed over the past decade or so, rights we've had since the magna carta, but which have been discarded without debate or thought.
As an example:
- The government can ban any groups it labels ‘terrorist’ (Terrorism Act 2000)
- The government can monitor any and all private communication (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000)
- Armed forces can be deployed on UK soil in peacetime (Civil Contingencies Act 2004)
- Property and assets can be seized without warning or compensation (Civil Contingencies Act 2004)
- Spontaneous protest is now illegal around Parliament (Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005)
- Without trial, any British citizen can be tagged, put under house arrest and banned from using the telephone or internet (Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005)
- Any citizen can be imprisoned without charge for 28 days (42 days has passed the house of commons) (Terrorism Act 2006)
- The executive can change any current legislation without consulting Parliament, with very few exceptions (Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006)
- Arbitrary punishments with no legal precedents can be issued with little legal recourse, based on hearsay evidence ( Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003)
- British citizens can be extradicted to the United States with no evidence presented (Extradition Act 2003)
- Compulsory identification for all British citizens, with an unlimited amount of details stored in a central database, which the private sector will have access to (Identity Cards Act 2006)
- Upon arrest the police have claim to your DNA, even if you are released without charge (Criminal Justice Act 2003)
Taken from the site protests.org.uk [protests.org.uk]
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