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Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, but Words Could Get You Arrested

Reason Staff | 2.8.2007 2:23 AM

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Britain's Metropolitan police force wants the power to arrest protestors if the slogans they chant or the words printed on signs they carry could offend others.

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