Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 has been authorised at Fairford in an attempt to control legitimate peace protests. We believe this is the first ever use of these powers and on Sunday 9th March at least 20 people were searched. Clearly these far reaching powers are being used in exactly the way civil liberties groups feared they would. That is to attempt to suppress civil disobedience and direct action against a government and war machine that is out of control.

In this video a friendly copper explains how they can now search anyone they like for no reason at all to look for "anything we feel you shouldn't have".