Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

It’s never anything less than depressing when you see headlines like
this.

Once again, our Government’s inability to keep us safe within the law of the land is there for all to see and instead of being embarrassed about that, John Reid has again argued for the end of freedom as we know it.

He asks “What price freedom?” – I think it’s hilarious that he needs to ask.

The argument itself is absurd. Reid suggests that we should “modify” our freedoms to defeat those who seek to fundamentally change them. Eh? I congratulate a stance that at once seeks to defeat and pander to terrorists all at the same time – a tough one to pull off.

And even if Reid and his cohorts are well intentioned, what are the chances of these “modifications” ever being removed if enacted?

Given that the current climate of fear, perpetuated by the cowards we have placed in charge of us, almost guarantees a population who will remain docile in the face of incremental moves further and further towards totalitarianism, when can we reasonably expect these freedoms back?

I would guess never. When you are “fighting” an imagined concept and not a real entity, you can be pretty open ended on when you wrap things up.

This Government’s obsession with old-labour protectionism coupled with their failure to get anything on UK citizens intent on doing others harm are making Blair’s labour party THE biggest danger to the fundamental freedoms we enjoy in the country I can recall having ever existed in my lifetime.

They have poisoned the well of serious debate with their boogie-man-under-the-bed fabrications and have cynically attempted to manipulate the nation into allowing them to change the rules in such a way that they no longer seem quite so utterly incompetent.

And all this before they threaten to fine you if you aren’t willing to be lined up and branded like cattle in their farcically expensive (for us, not them) ID card scheme.

I don’t know about everyone else, but I would rather die than live in a country where you can be interned without charge indefinitely. I would rather die than live in a country where people proved guilty of nothing can be held under indefinite house arrest. We are being asked to accept the transformation of the UK from a free society to Guantanamo Bay for anyone “suspected” of anything (and when does a “suspect” become anyone the Government isn’t too keen on?).

It pulls the rug from beneath the burden of proof authorities are duty bound to supply when it accuses one of its citizens and makes a mockery of a justice system that has been the model for free societies the world over.

Try harder John.