Quote Originally Posted by rockhound View Post
yes i mentioned britain, the numbers of people who actually belong to a group are irrelevant, the fact is they are becoming empowered and believe they have rights that are above the law of the land making them a danger to our freedoms. to dismiss them out of hand is to be naive to a fault.
Of course it's relevant. Your angle seemed to be "look what happens if we get all pc and wishy-washy" so the fact that a government that a lot of you would consider to be hard-core Stalinists because they're left of centre actually took the decidedly un-PC and anti First Amendment step of saying "this organization is now illegal and if you're a member, you're a criminal" renders your point moot.

If you were trying to demonstrate how Britain is slowly turning into an Islamic state because they're too soft on Muslims, you couldn't have chosen a worse example than an organization that hardly anyone was a member of, that did absolutely nothing other than release a few statements designed to garner attention, that everyone spoke out against (including other Muslims) and that was banned by the government.