Fast Times in the United Kingdom

This is bad news.

Young Britons enjoying drink-soaked nights out around Britain this summer could soon be in for a shock, a report said late Saturday -- troops patrolling the streets to keep order.

In an attempt to crack down on alcohol-fuelled disorder, dozens of towns around the country will draft in military police to help civilian officers arrest drunken yobs, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper said.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke has ordered the initiative following an experiment at a town in Hertfordshire, southern England, where military police were used to patrol the streets late at night.

They were mainly there to keep order among soldiers from a nearby army base, but also arrested civilians who were drunk and causing trouble, which they are entitled to do under British law, the paper said.

The British are going to start enforcing civilian laws with military personnel without a declaration of martial law? This is absolutely unacceptable, and the British citizens should be protesting this development fervently as we speak.

Will they? Of course not, because the Brits refuse to realize that their government is taking too much power. This is what happens when your entire political establishment is based on a system of gentlemen's agreements, all of which can be altered at will by the British government.

Not good if you ask me.