"If you are worried about civil liberties being stolen from you by diktat or bled away by a thousand tiny legislative lacerations, you need to get together and arrange something on the scale and scope of the atheist bus campaign.
Commenting on a Henry Porter blog may be cathartic, but it will do no good unless it leads to more action.
Ask yourself: would I join in a mass protest - or am I too scared that I might be the one taken away by the police?
Your answer will tell you something about the scale of the public outcry which is needed and how much you are already living in fear of the state.
Each person mentioning the person they know or saw or their own experience of being treated as a state suspect for simply doing something normal and innocent reveals the problem.
It is that we are each alone against the power of the state and that isolation, that separation and that aloneness is the very thing which gives the state its power.
Stop reading and commenting and thinking that in so doing, you are saving liberties and pushing back the juggernaut of the state.
Your only protection is in a group, a tribe, a society which can have a voice which will have the power to shout down the state.
Stop squeaking and start to roar. "
I am not a natural protestor and admit to being scared to go on demonstrations, but something will have to give soon.
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