It was not acceptable for an ordinary citizen to interfere with a person's liberty by confining him or her in a doorway.

There may be complex legal reasons for this, but to the ordinary citizen this evasiveness appears to be bizarre.

But the elimination of the rule of the ordinary citizen in deciding the guilt or otherwise of fellow citizens may be a price too high.

I don't mean the ordinary citizen has systematically deconstructed official claims and arguments and found them wanting.

This injunction puts any ordinary citizen tweeting facts at risk of prosecution; an extraordinary imposition in a democracy.