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Sickening

February 27th, 2006

I’m sure this has been much-blogged-about, but Tony Blair’s monologue really saddens me. I just get an overwhelming sense of you’re wrong, I’m right from this article, which is totally the wrong attitude for someone who has been elected.

But first, the true record.

Because we’re incapable of finding out the reality of what Blair has been doing for ourselves? The freedom of information act? Yeah, right. That seems to be working really, really, really well…

Antisocial behaviour isn’t susceptible to normal court process.

And the evidence for this is…?

Modern organised crime is really ugly, with groups, often from overseas, frequently prepared to use horrific violence.

Because, of course, old-fashioned organised crime was genteel, civilised. And, of course, bugger all has actually happened to the crime rate, which has been rising for the last 20 years.

For me, this is not an issue of liberty but of modernity.

Once we’re all owned by public-private partnerships will we be modern enough? Private sector good, public sector baaad…

People should be prevented from glorifying terrorism.

People should be prevented from ignoring the opinion of between three-quarters and two million electors. But thats just my opinion, which will be ignored, like always.

Most people already have a range of different cards, for workplace, bank or leisure.

Yes, but they’re federated. I can choose what information they have (by only sharing so much information with the companies – this is why I don’t have loyalty cards). The government is shouting loud that ID cards won’t have information about “race, religion, sexuality, health, criminal record or political beliefs” stored on the card. They say nothing about the database for “joined-up government services” – i.e: DNA, fingerprints, national insurance, income tax, the NHS, driving licences, vehicle owners, passport holders and voters. Read all about it.

If the nature of the threat changes, so should our policies.

And if the threat is your policies?

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