There is a mood growing in the country

I have blogged before, here and here for example about "This Labour government's mania for control and surveillance of the law abiding majority in this once free Country". I know I am not alone, there are many others in the blogosphere such as Devils Kitchen and Samizdata who regularly blog about such matters. On Sunday I read a lovely argument by Simon Jenkins entitled "You’re better safe than free - the mantra of the Whitehall Taliban", you can read the whole article here; but these two sentences jump out "Voltaire and John Stuart Mill insisted there should be an ideological chasm between disapproving an act and wanting it halted. In modern Britain this chasm has become a skip and a jump. Whatever we dislike we require the government to ban." and "Each new straw may seem sensible in itself until suddenly we have broken the camel’s back. We find that we have crossed the line from a mature, responsible democracy into an arthritic and fearful police state. Aspects of British public administration are reminiscent of the Taliban." Read the whole article and the comments underneath, I particularly love this one "The UK is getting closer to a single rule of law where everything that is not mandatory is forbidden.

This government seems determined to criminalise the majority of the population by systematic use of fear-factor legislation to threaten the majority of law-abiding people with prison sentences but does little to manage the actual violence and abuse practised by a minority.

Labour was voted a huge majority and have systematically used it to strip the electorate of any voice by railroading endless new law. It will never be possible to know what Tony said to Gordon in their private and "bully boys" closed meetings, previous governments left records. Not this one.

Thought crime is heading for the statute books: prison sentences for people caught with "extreme pornography", even though it's not clear if the people or the pictures are supposed to be dangerous, or who is supposed to be at risk. Even if it's fake.

Write to your MP, they are meant to be working for YOU

J Fox, London, UK"


Forward Simon Jenkins' article to as many people as you can and spread the word about this government's controlling tendencies, they must be stopped.