It's funny how the countries which are usually full of "Freedom" rhetoric to the extent that it nauseates the foreign observer, appear to nowadays have the most spineless politicians and apathetic populations when it would be time to stand up and protect those supposedly cherished freedoms - or at least a time to show some amount of indignation for the loss of them.

But it seems that the British forget all about Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus and other stuff like that and the Yankees, who usually are like silverback gorillas thumping their chests and shouting about "Land of the Free! Live Free or Die!", fall silent and find something more interesting and unpolitical to do when reality bites them by showing the ugly modern truths under all that old heirloom rhetoric.