The UK is in poor company when it comes to protecting civic liberties, writes Alan Rusbridger . We should be glad that some people are exercised enough by what is going wrong in the world to want to protest T he police burst in, broke up the gathering and arrested everyone involved. They carted them off to the cells, confiscated their phones and, in at least one case, raided their home and took away all the family laptops and hard drives. The crime? Er, well, there may not have been one.