This is the sick reality of the police state we are trying to become in this country. When we live in a country where a man with a wooden table leg is gunned down mercilessly, then we have to question whether something really went wrong somewhere. Now, I wasn’t there at the time and I am only looking at this as an outsider, but I feel it vindicates my instinctive reaction upon seeing police officers with guns – I move away from them as fast as possible. I don’t want to be there when the voices in their heads take over or they otherwise decide it’s a good idea to shoot innocent people.
Papers, please!
I read various blogs about the “REALID” (see the UnREALID website for more informtaion) addendum to an illegal conflict (Iraq/others) war bill going through US Congress. It disgusts me that they do this – tack on completely unrelated legislation onto “must pass” bills to provide some other critical funding. But, on some level, I do wish this kind of legislation upon the U.S. – it might, just might, start getting ordinary people to take an interest in Freedom and politics once again. Maybe. Do you want ID cards? Do you think it’s a good idea? I think it’s a monumentally stupid idea but it seems to be popular right now – must have come up as a strategy at some private international governance convention or something. Can’t we just pay these people just to do nothing at all? I’m all in favour of “wasting” tax dollars/pounds/whatever on these people if we can pay them to just sit and feel important and pass no laws whatsoever.
Deary me, we’ve got a UK government being put back together from previously fallen ministers. Blunkett is back, albeit he can’t introduce ID cards quite so easily in his post in charge of the DWP (goodness help those poor, poor people) – but he’ll probably force the elderly to wear giant identification badges or something – there’s always something he and Straw can try to do. The cool thing about changing ministers is that they’re never around to account for their actions. I once wrote a letter to the European Court of Human Rights about Jack Straw’s human rights violations (evil legislation, incompatible with the Human Rights Act and designed to make our lives more unpleasant if at all possible) and he was well out of office by the time I got a response. Canada isn’t doing much better – a confidence vote is coming up on Martin’s government. Did I say confidence? Apparently that’s not a sexy term any more, so they’re trying to rebrand it as something far less serious than it really seems.
I’ve been pondering thusly: The US is in this case gigantic mess over fighting in certain “axis of exil” countries arbitrarily chosen from around the world. When’s it the UK’s turn? We’ve got nuclear weapons, George, and we’ve got 4 subs with potentially active nukes ready to go, surely we should be your logical next target? No? Why ever not? Oh, we’re not “officially” evil. Ah.
Jon.