For Sale: I'm a Terrorist not a Photographer

You are right Tynan, it's futile holding them up to your rights as an innocent man, but if you tow the line, the most they can do is inconvinence you, which by asking them to give over their details is as close to hoisting them on their own petards as we can get.

I think that is as much as you can do, a cheerful servility is what will make them (some - not all) feel they are being afforded the respect their recently granted authority demands.

So when some 4' 9" poorly trained PCSO in a fluorescent jacket, several sizes too big for him, barks at you to stop filming or shoves your camera out of your hand - it is, like you say, probably best to toe-the-line.

But this does not necessarily mean you still might not be arrested and taken to a cell for 8 hours, even being polite and handing over your details when demanded is no guarantee that you won't be slung in the back of a van if the officer does not like you - or what he perceives you to be - or to be up to.

I'd personally like to kill them on the face to the power of 10 but that can wait till the uprising....

That was a perfectly safe thing to say 2 years ago, right now that could land you in court.

I will be a witness for the state.