americans have reason to be afraid of their leaders. rarely have truer words been written.



what i worry about is that bliar's government are up to the same sorts of tricks as bush's but the press, some of whom were more than happy to have a go at the bastard for taking us into an illegal war, will not shout about the constant erosion of human rights here in the u.k.



road traffic cameras are now being co-opted into a 'security' role in london, a role that the fascist-formerly-known-as-red ken is proud to crow about. he's said that if congestion charging becomes worthless, the cameras will stay in place to assist with 'security'. someone tell me how someone in a traffic control room being able to follow someone around the city will help make that place more secure? if someone was planting a bomb, for the sake of argument, he'd have planted it and left before it exploded (unless he was particularly stupid) and all they'd have would be a few images of his vehicle entering and leaving the city. how would that help them find him if the vehicle was stolen and he then dumped it somewhere without camera coverage? how would they know which vehicle he used? for it to be of any use, they'd have to know it was him, what vehicle he was in and where he was going so they could make sure the cameras were looking in the right direction to find him - better to follow him in a car or on a motorbike if you know those things, surely - then you just might have a chance of stopping him killing people - and you wouldn't want the bomb to go off and kill people so that you could use it as an excuse to introduce more human-rights infringing laws, of course ... would you? security could not be increased by this means. what could be increased is the government's ability to spy on and follow people whose car registrations they already know.



the deeply unprincipled david blunkett is going to let the police collect and keep fingerprints and dna from everyone who is arrested. not found guilty but arrested. he also wants to allow hearsay evidence in court, allow juries to be told of previous convictions, allow judges to hear cases alone, remove double jeopardy. all these are guaranteed to get more convictions - of innocent people. the little fascist is allowing the private prison companies to set the law-making agenda in this country - same as happens in the u.s. and 1% of the adult population is in prison at any one time over there.



these complete little shits are doing all this having achieved a less than consensual 25% of the popular vote at the last election. what gives them the right to act like they have some right to do anything when they haven't even been elected by a majority?



makes me so glad to live in a truly open, democratic nation - not.