A slice of frog's liver pate

...is threatening to sue DK at the Devil's Kitchen! Coo!

Professor Allyson MacVean has been quoted by the BBC advocating giving the police powers to search people's computers without a warrant.

"Internet addresses are so easy to make up and it doesn't give any sense of who the person is or where their location is," she told the BBC, "which is why the police do need to have access to their computers without them needing to go and apply for a warrant."

Her particular interest is paedophiles, but as DK makes clear, any law for which she successfully lobbies will inevitably affect everyone else as well. She clearly doesn't care though. She is just another half-witted academic chipping away at what is left of the wall of civil liberties that our ancestors built up in the past.

DK seems to have summarised her, quite correctly, in his usual inimitable fashion. He has however toned it down following her threat of legal action. For those who are interested in the original DK-isms, the original post is still in the Google cache. Unfortunately this is a family blog and most of what he wrote is unrepeatable here, but I was particularly impressed by the description of Professor MacVean as an "illiberal slice of frog's liver pate". I do wonder though if this understates the awfulness of the woman.