Is these "laws" something we should worry about?

[curious aardvark]

that's right: so trying to establish who will perform the illegal actions and stopping them getting the objects that will help them - is a good idea :-)

It's called positive discrimination and it should be used a lot more.

In the uk we're so bloody liberally backwards we refuse to use positive discrimination.
Which leads to the situation we had last week at dover.

Instead of just checking swarthy looking nervous folk boarding the ferry from france to the uk - which is logical and positive discrimination.
They instead stopped and checked every single vehicle going from the uk to france.
Leading to 18 hour delays for people going on holiday.
That's 18 hours stuck in the middle of a bloody motorway with no facilities.

Given that getting hold of firearms and explosives on the continent is an absolute doddle now there are no border checks or controls and given that getting hold of same in the uk is extremely bloody difficult.
And also given that cars full of mixed age british families and all their luggage are around 99.999999999% less likely to be terrorists than a car with a single or couple of asian blokes in who look a bit nervous.

The situation was just ludicrous.
What is the point of criminal/terrorist profiling if the information recieved from the profiling is just going to be totally ignored in the face of bureacratic and officious political correctness.

It's the same nonsense that means everyone boarding a plane has to be checked down to the composition of their fillings, instead of just the ones more likely to cause problems.

The annoying thing (what just the one ?) is that the millions of pounds has been spent on profiling and intelligence on who is likely to do what - is just ignored in the desire to show the world we're not racists, religionists and biased.
When By rights using the available profiles and intelligence does not mean you're being racist, just sensible.

And that's thursday's rant :-)