John Whittingdale says that it is statutory underpinning that is objectionable.
"The price of freedom of speech is that we sometimes have to put up with opinions that are objectionable and offensive".
It is not the widening of the field of intrusion that is objectionable here, it is the weakening of the safeguards that should be in place to control it.
On the other foot Silver screens Limping back to power Bye-bye, B'Stard Forever blowing bubbles Of mice and MPs Michael Gove, school swot ReprintsOfsted and the Education Funding Agency, which oversees quasi-independent state "academies" like Park View, found much that was objectionable.
"They're incapable of distinguishing between information that is innocuous and information that is objectionable, let alone making the fine distinction between information that is constitutionally protected and that which is not".
But it's not the patronising of the new supporters that is objectionable (everyone expects that, especially at World Cups when you always get people only interested every four years no matter which country you're from).
In a 10-page analysis, commissioned by the newspaper industry, they said the proposals "single out for punishment a particular category of defendant", the press, "rather than a particular kind of conduct" that is objectionable.
But the impeachment and removal of federal judges who issue rulings that are objectionable to some conservatives has been very seriously proposed by Representative Tom DeLay, one of the most powerful members of Congress, and other right-wing extremists in the Republican Party.
This denial of equal moral status explains why such measures send an insulting message, one that is objectionable over and above any impact it has on the autonomy of citizens.
