I've been suspicious of anti-terror laws from the get-go. Essentially they're constructed in such a way to make legal behavior that the constitutions clearly disallow. Spying on local citizens and so forth. I also KNEW that it's too tempting for any government to use them in ways they were not designed or meant.
Iceland and the UK is a good example. According to the UK, Iceland is now a terrorist nation. How else could they apply
anti terror laws[7b9 to freeze assets after the collapse of the Icelandic banking sector?
Link to news story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7662027.stm
What's nasty about this is that there aren't even a hint of an excuse, it's so blatantly in your face. If a government can do this to an allied democratic country that doesn't even have an army, has the world's most homogeneous population and the world's smallest potential for producing terrorists, then why would they stop short of using the laws against their own citizens if they saw a need (or just wanted to for the fun of it?).
Penn and Teller should do an episode on it...because this is bull manure.
