I didn’t realise what I was taking on when I volunteered for the Carnival of Modern Liberty. The posts have been coming in all week like bills from British Gas, and the doormat is completely buried.

So, here we go, in a slightly less animated style than Jennie last week.

The Convention on Modern Liberty

Who should speak at the liberty bloggers event? posted at Liberal Conspiracy.

Ron Broxted – The Convention on Modern Liberty. posted at LiveJournal.

Leading article: Fight for our liberties – Leading Articles, Opinion – The Independent posted at The Independent.

Modern Liberty posted at Their Contempt For You Is Total.

Little Man in a Toque » Blog Archive » Discussion piece: The Convention on Modern Liberty posted at Little Man in a Toque.

Timothy Garton Ash: Liberty in Britain is facing death by a thousand cuts. We can fight back | Comment is free | The Guardian posted at Comment is Free.

Stuart Winton presents The liberty paradox posted at Planet Politics.

Keeping your Mind Free

What Freedom Means to Me posted at Philosophy Forums.

Be Mass Media Free posted at we overstep.

Remembering what Mr Gordon said about being British.

Centralised Power

Guy Herbert: Another day, another Home Office power-grab | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk posted at Comment is Free.

Control of Dissent

Seumas Milne: According to the UK government, we are all extremists now | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk posted at Comment is Free.

Data and Databases

EU Data Retention Directive endangers democracy | open Democracy News Analysis posted at open Democracy News Analysis – Comments.

For *all* parents posted at Sometimes It’s Peaceful.

White Elephants are Expensive

The cost of the surveillance state posted at Peter Black AM.

State surveillance to cost billions posted at Emergency Services News.

Police and the Public

Sleepwalking towards a police state. posted at Obsolete.

Why can’t we take pictures of policemen? posted at the Telegraph by Philip Johnston.

Poor at mind reading? Snap a copper and get ten years in the slammer posted at calm, almost too calm.

ID Cards

The next six groups to get ID cards? posted at Liberal Democrat Voice.

Union refutes claim that airport workers now back ID cards – vnunet.com posted at The most recent News from VNU Business Publications.

Things that should be easy to fix

Henry Porter: MPs fiddle while parliamentary democracy burns | Comment is free | The Observer posted at Comment is Free.

Contrarians and Counterpoints

Irked Stonewall presents The Great Slavery Excuse posted at Why I Loathe.

Money Free World posted at we overstep.

CoML: Animal Rights and odd bedfellows posted at Though Cowards Flinch.

I’m not going to the Convention on Modern Liberty posted at donpaskini.

Responding to the Convention backlash posted at Liberal Conspiracy.

International

Employee Free Choice Act: An Insult to American Workers posted at Political Castaway Blog: Broadcasting Conservatism to Rescue America.

Obama Embraces the Bush/Cheney Unitary Executive. Again and again and again. posted at Divided We Stand United We Fall.

A bit of the other

Refugees flock to Guardian’s Liberty Central posted at Olly’s Onions.

And things that you can do…

Who Knows What About You? 25 Free Tools to Find Out posted at e-Justice Blog.

Search engine satire is currently easy on Youtube (Example: “Carter-Ruck“, also Google). Fun with Simpson’s clips and a world without libel lawyers.

Finally, I’m building resource pages of bloggers sacked because of their blogs, harrassed photographers, threatened writers and published Cease and Desist letters. Can you help?

Roll up for next week

On the eve of the Convention on Modern Liberty events, the next Festival of Modern Liberty will be hosted at Liberal Conspiracy.

James Graham is looking for people willing to host the Carnival in the future. Email him at modernliberty@quaequam.net.

Phew.