From The Ridiculous To The Sublime ...U.K. Police Charge Man For Organizing A Mass Water Gun Fight

In the social media crackdown following the London Riots, Police have charged a man a 20 year man with the crime of organizing a massive water gun fight. In the wake of the London riots that British government has called for a social media crackdown with companies like Facebook and Blackberry voluntarily handing over customer data to law enforcement officials in order to crack down on protestors who planned and participated in the riots. The crackdown has escalated to the involvement of British intelligence agencies to assist in the data mining and decrypting of message used in the planning of the events. Today we get our first reports of the police charging a man with a crime unassociated with the riots from the Guardian, which raises constitutional rights against illegal search and seizure. If that weren’t enough the crime being charged is for planning a mass water gun fight, according to the following report from the Guardian. If the police were forced to obtain a warrant for the data to search for crimes only related to the riots, the police would not be able to charge the man for the unrelated crime...read more>>>...