I hope that stories like this make people realise the rights that they have given up and start campaigning and voting to get them back again. Terrorism laws ar

I hope that stories like this make people realise the rights that they have given up and start campaigning and voting to get them back again. Terrorism laws are so obviously hugely disproportionate to what they allegedly protect against at this point. Governments should balance two kinds of freedom. "freedom to (do as we please)" and "freedom from (others harming us)". If these terrorism laws were really about protecting "freedom from" then they would also have a blanket ban on cars, guns, knives, alcohol and tobacco, all of which cause orders of magnitude more harm. Of course bans like that have been historically attempted and populations very clearly told Governments attempting to enforce them in which direction to fuck off to. But these kind of abuses are a lot easier for people to ignore when they always happen to "someone else" but "probably will never happen to me".