You say I have 'pared down our liberty at an astonishing rate', then list a whole lot of fundamental rights, as if these had all been drastically curtailed.
There are gratuitous new restrictions on an already heavily curtailed right to strike, plans to rob the earnings of migrants who may work hard but lack the proper paperwork, and such a sweeping ban on legal highs that government lawyers could soon be fretting about accidentally criminalising sweets that give a sugar rush.
Though Forfar have come agonisingly close to causing an upset against Rangers in the past, he points out: 'There is a bigger gap between the two teams now than when we played them before.' Celtic, who face a rather tougher looking Scottish Cup hurdle at Aberdeen tomorrow, are sweating on the fitness of Henrik Larsson, whose training has been curtailed because of a hamstring injury.
As a result, from the start of 2013, countless theatres, museums and orchestras will see their funding either severely curtailed or, like the Internationaal Danstheater, cut off altogether.
The first six weeks of Fifth Brigade's attacks were massive in their intensity but, as the documents show, an order was given for them to be curtailed after news had leaked to the outside world.
Ian Junior's career was mortally curtailed following a series of allegations of political lobbying on behalf of a property developer who was seeking a contract to construct a new visitors' centre at the world famous Giant's Causeway site.
Bankers have warned time and again that if their bonuses are curtailed, they will move to places where there are no such restrictions – robbing the country of vital income.
In fact, a focus on individual behaviour provides cover for the tobacco, food, beverage, and alcohol industries as they expand into developing countries: they are uninterested in having their production and marketing of products curtailed through regulation or restrictions, nor the profits that wide consumption ensures.
But many campaigners speak of a "hidden crisis" in which intimidation continues and freedoms are curtailed along with widespread poverty and joblessness.
The passing of the USA Freedom Act last week curtailed so-called "section 215" bulk collection of phone record metadata – information about who called whom, and timings, but not the content of conversations.
The right to trial by jury, the right to silence, the right not to be punished until a court has decided that the law has been broken, the right to demonstrate and protest, the presumption of innocence, the right to private communication, the right to travel without surveillance and the details of that journey being retained - all have been curtailed by your legislation.
