Even Saddam never thought of this one

Thanks to Tony Blair and John Reid (following in the footsteps of John Major and Michael Howard) you can now be sent to prison, not for illegal acts but for impure thoughts. Yes, you can now be convicted of creating child pornography even when no child has been involved in any way, at any stage of the process.

And once you are suspected of being a 'sex offender' (see above) even perfectly innocent, non-pornographic pictures of children (such as your family photographs) may be added to the citation as further counts of indecent images, as they could be digitally manipulated to create pornographic pseudo-photographs.

So non-pornographic pictures of children = child porn. Pornographic pictures of non-children = child porn. basically, if the police have decided they want you locked up, any picture, of any kind, is now potentially sufficient to get you jailed.

Expect revelations of child pornography found on all those thousands of CDs and data sticks seized from the "terror" suspects. How could it not be?

P.S. I am amused that the "forensic computer analyst" for Cleveland Police is called Ray Savage. Does anyone remember this sketch from Not The Nine O'Clock News? (I am also amused that in the German website's explanation of the references in the sketch they think the SPG was something to do with London Zoo!)

P.P.S. Cleveland Police. Hmm. Now why do the words Cleveland and trumped-up child abuse charges go together so well?