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"There is more than one kind of freedom...Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it."
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
"It is up to each and all of us to ask the questions: what price our security? What price our freedoms? At what cost can we preserve our freedoms?"
John Reid (Quoted here)
I am also disturbed by the fact that John Reid reminds me more every day of Adam Sutler. Yes, the Tories were greedy, hypocritical and often uncaring while in office but on the other hand they didn't always make me think of fascist dystopian futures either...
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
"It is up to each and all of us to ask the questions: what price our security? What price our freedoms? At what cost can we preserve our freedoms?"
John Reid (Quoted here)
I am also disturbed by the fact that John Reid reminds me more every day of Adam Sutler. Yes, the Tories were greedy, hypocritical and often uncaring while in office but on the other hand they didn't always make me think of fascist dystopian futures either...
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So, yes, i too am mindboggled and shit scared by the rapid creep towards police-statehood in the UK. The worst bit is that i don't see an end to it - the Brown regime won't be any different, any tory government wouldn't be any different, the liberals won't form a government but could throw a spanner in the works, but won't because of what the tabloids will say, and the press love the nice, simple government-vs-terror story. My one hope is that the judges will start striking down the worst excesses, but that's tricky, because the government is working by making laws rather than policy, which means the human rights act is the only weapon, and that's got security get-outs you could drive a black maria through.
Did you know John Reid was also the Lone Ranger's name? FACT!
-- tom
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