...well in England in any case.
Here in the USA? Probably the same story at this point. The Republican and Democratic wings of the One Ruling Party of America are both dedicated to the imposition of a totalitarian police state on the ruins of the Old Republic so the chances of it being reversed peacefully are exactly zero. Cute little squeals by Ron Paul and company with their well intentioned but ineffectual Campaign for Liberty will do nothing to stop this juggernaut. Armed revolt has the same chances of starting and even less of succeeding as turning it around politically. Why? The subjects of the American Empire don't actually want freedom, they like the all powerful nanny state, even though it comes with that slight inconvenience of the iron fist of totalitarian police power. "Your papers please." Hey, they said please!
Here in the USA? Probably the same story at this point. The Republican and Democratic wings of the One Ruling Party of America are both dedicated to the imposition of a totalitarian police state on the ruins of the Old Republic so the chances of it being reversed peacefully are exactly zero. Cute little squeals by Ron Paul and company with their well intentioned but ineffectual Campaign for Liberty will do nothing to stop this juggernaut. Armed revolt has the same chances of starting and even less of succeeding as turning it around politically. Why? The subjects of the American Empire don't actually want freedom, they like the all powerful nanny state, even though it comes with that slight inconvenience of the iron fist of totalitarian police power. "Your papers please." Hey, they said please!
Brits show Yanks how a police state is done
In years to come, those of us mourning the erosion of liberty in America will probably turn to each other from time to time and sigh, "It could be worse; we could be British." Actually, we can do that right now. Maybe it's something in the water over there, but the government of the UK seems to have watched the former Bush administration's abuses of due process and privacy (and the Obama administration's "nothing to see here" attitude toward maintaining much of the same), sneered "pikers," and set about to show the world how a democracy is really turned into a police state.Things like this rarely happen over night, and sure enough, Britain's descent into the world of V for Vendetta has been building for a long time. There have been creeping restrictions on free speech, closed-circuit TV cameras on every corner, national ID cards on the way, and the like for many years.
But over the past two weeks ... Well, let's just look, shall we? (Read the rest.)
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