Perspective

Blogging at National Review's The Corner, Iain Murray (of the now no longer Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute) equates the cases of an imprisoned Egyptian dissident with a not-very-likely-to-be-imprisoned English blogger --

Remember What They Did to the Real Guido Fawkes [Iain Murray]

Braving the ice, there are hardy souls currently demonstrating outside the Egyptian embassy here in DC over the incarceration of political blogger Abdelkareem Soliman Amer, 22, who is in prison because Egyptian authorities didn't like what he had to say... Bizarrely, a British political blogger may be in jail soon as well. Guido Fawkes has been threatened with imprisonment if he doesn’t hand over all his research on the dealings of a think-tank connected to Chancellor Gordon Brown.

Guido has an amusingly illustrated (as long he's not taking the imagery too seriously) account here, while those of you with a little time to spare can scroll through the anti-Guido case here. Incidentally, the appearance of Guido as a cause celebre on The Corner would be a development predicted by the anti-Guido dossier.

And, the title of Murray's post sidesteps the fact that real Guido did try to blow up Parliament, and the King.