Imagine, for a moment, this.

Your neighbor tears down his barn. Needing money, he does it in sections so that the debris is reuseable. You buy the debris to use in the repair of your barn. You then get a letter from your local government saying that you are breaking the law and they want you to report to the police station "for an interview to establish your involvement in an "unlicensed waste management operation". This letter is from a local "Special Enforcement Officer". His job is to make sure you are in compliance with all of the new EU rules and regulations that are overtaking your once soveriegn nation.

I imagine most of you would respond in close to the same way that Geoff Bean did when his government did to him.

He sent a letter, "I am in receipt of your pompous and ill-informed letter. How dare you write to me in such terms, as if you were addressing a common criminal. Were I a one-legged homosexual Afghan refugee/terrorist living on the welfare state, you and your ilk would not dare write in such a manner for fear of having all the human rights lawyers in creation round your necks, but as you are speaking to an honest, hard-working and overstressed Englishman, you appear to think you can behave like all too many of the vast and ever-increasing army of totally useless, non-productive, arrogant and bloody-minded officialdom, who are now only too successfully doing more damage to this once great and free nation than was ever achieved by Adolf Hitler."

Couldn't have said it better my self.

But it is not over yet. The "Special Enforcement Officer" is demanding that Geoff submit to the "interview". But Geoff has reminded him that, "since slavery in this country had been abolished, he would expect reimbursement at �150 an hour or part thereof, plus VAT".

Go read the rest at Samizdata. The picture that accompanies the article alone is worth the trip.