There are other indications that Britain is not free:
- Drive while drinking alchohol and you will be arrested
- Drive without a license and you will be arrested
- Collect child porn and you will be arrested
- Grow marujanna and you will be arrested
- Try fighting in the street (with a consentual sparring partner) and you will be arrested
How all freedoms have been eroded in Britain.
This is all true I'm afraid.
And worse still...we can be arrested for taking the life or property of another person!
I mean can you imagine! Not being allowed to rob and kill at will?
Freedom eh?
However, we are still allowed to cross the street without harrasment from the law unlike some places (jaywalking is it called?)
You get arrested for the same things in New York (although driving w/o a license would require it to be suspended, or no ID at all on the driver). So your point is?