A group of us have been pushing this story round the web hoping it would be picked up in the main stream media and it finally has. The guy featured is possibly the most harmless person I've met..he lives a few doors from me in Sydney's Kings Cross. Although this happened in Sydney I've heard of similar cases in the UK.

What's important in this story is how police everywhere have take on fascist style powers they're not entitled to. This guy is reasonably wealthy and connected..if he was working class, poor, he wouldn't have a hope:

Mobile phone seizure an 'abuse of police powers'
By David Earley

A MAN detained and threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act for filming police on his mobile phone says police abused their powers. Nick Holmes a Court, CEO of web-based media companies BuzzNumbers and ShiftedPixels, was walking to his home near Kings Cross in Sydney about 10pm on December 19.

He said police forcibly took his BlackBerry phone and threatened him with arrest both under the Australian Anti-Terrorism Act and for allegedly disobeying a police directive.

Mr Holmes a Court said he had started filming what looked like a search after he noticed a group of police walking down his street.

www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348...4816-5014239,00.html