A WEEK AGO, it was reported that German state secretary Jurgen Chrobog called the United States a “police state.”

I wonder what he has to say about this:

A German man who staged a political protest by writing “The Government is crap” on his own car, has been told to remove it or face jail.

Police failed to see the funny side of 33-year-old Stefan Lukoschek’s protest at the policies of Gerhard Schroeder.

Heh.