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Civil Liberties

Affirmative Action (Police State Edition)

Jesse Walker | 6.17.2009 1:03 PM

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The Guardian reports:

Thousands of people are being stopped and searched by the police under counter-terrorism powers simply to provide a racial balance in official statistics, the [U.K.] government's official anti-terror law watchdog has revealed.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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