Ray Bradbury would be turning in his grave... if he were dead

Ray Bradbury, the author of one of my favourite books, Farenheit 451, who, just to clarify, is still alive, is seeing his prophecy come true, albeit with a 21st century twist.

A Nottingham Universtity student, as part of a legitimate study, downloaded a copy of the "Manual of Afghan Jihad" or "Military Studies in the Jihad [Holy War] Against the Tyrants" otherwise known as the Al-Qaeda manual. This document was part of the Politics faculty reading list. Alarms were raised when the document was passed to a member of university staff for printing and within days the pair were arrested and found themselves staring at a holding cell wall.

Six days of interregation followed, computer equipment was confiscated and family was interviewed, all for printing a copy of this document.

Is it just me or does this strike anyone as a serious erosion of our civil liberties? Either way I've found the edited version (by the US gov) on the department of justice website which are here:

part one; part two; part three; part four

Since the DOJ put them up I'm assuming you cant get arrested for reading them! If I were you I would read them while we are still able to.