In Britain today, provided we measure up to the establishment’s idea of what constitutes an obedient citizen and agree that our privacy is state property, we are granted civil liberties.
New Labour, first under the war criminal Tony Blair and more recently under the banksters’ puppet Gordon Brown, has worked diligently since 1997 to overturn the basic freedoms we have enjoyed for centuries.
Our complacency and the cynical exploitation of events on September 11th, 2001 and July 7th, 2005 have encouraged authoritarians and their bureaucrats to introduce thousands of new laws, sweeping police powers and unprecedented government interference in our daily lives. These laws are allegedly designed to deter terrorism but are increasingly deployed against law abiding citizens who have attempted to exercise their right to protest.
The police state that is the inevitable product of this avalanche of draconian legislation is now openly on display. The Big Brother nightmare that Orwell warned against in 1948 might have taken two decades longer to materialise than he predicted but it has undeniably arrived.
From grandmothers falling prey to police (who have long abandoned their duty to protect the community) through to millions of CCTV cameras that spy on our every movement, to courts that can imprison without charge or trial, New Labour has constructed a society where protest has been transformed into serious organised crime, the concept of privacy has been converted into an act of concealment and innocence is rejected as a legal defence.
The sobering documentary, “Taking Liberties”, examines the impact of Blair’s regime on our country and reminds us it has always been the citizen that has fought for and won civil rights. And it is always the citizen that must stand up and protest when government comes to take those rights away.
There must be moments when every person of genuine conscience despairs as they stand up to protect the rights of their fellow citizens. Why must they stand alone? Why does the majority sit on its hands, often hurling abuse at those who make personal sacrifices to properly defend society? Please watch the following documentary and if you are a person that has long remained silent as our liberty drains away, have a thought for whose interests are best served by your inaction. Yours? Do you think?
