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SPORTING GOODS

Following up on DarLucky's post of a few days ago, I see that

Tottenham Hotspur banned vuvuzela horns from its soccer stadium, becoming the first English Premier League club to outlaw the plastic instruments heard droning throughout the World Cup in South Africa.

The reason, of course, is that

“We are concerned that the presence of the instruments within the stadium pose unnecessary risks to public safety and could impact on the ability of all supporters to hear any emergency safety announcements,” the London club said yesterday in a statement on its website.

Ah yes. "Public safety." Times sure have changed since 9/11, haven't they? Now all a corporate or public entity has to do is play the security card and the cravens will fall right into line.

Needless to say, at least on this side of the Atlantic, practices in the name of "security" curtailed civil rights unlike anything the republic had ever seen.

And things certainly aren't getting any better.