The Wire

When 82 year old Walter Wolfgang was arrested at a recent British Labour Party conference for heckling, the police did so using anti-terrorist laws…The thought of an 82 year old being detained on anti-terrorist laws for shouting the word “nonsense” while a speech was being delivered seems ridiculous—but according to civil rights activists, a series of new criminal and anti-terrorist laws have been implemented in recent years which have seriously compromised traditional rights of freedom of speech and the public’s right to protest…British civil rights activist Dave Morris sprang to fame as part of the celebrated McLibel case, and he told Peter Godfrey about his reaction to the Wolfgang case