The New UK Government Plans To Make Us All Terrorists
By Dark PolitricksThis is a recent video from Russell Brand about the new UK Tory governments plans for a new anti terror bill that will crack down on free speech and other civil liberties.
It seems that with every new government we get a new "anti terrorism" law passed, Tony Blair passed at least 2 that I can remember. They were mostly used for memorable things such as:
- Freezing all Icelandic money in UK banks after the Iceland Banking crisis - something which the Icelandic people have never forgiven us for. From my recent trip to Iceland I would not be surprised to see a statue of Gordon Brown put up in Reykjavik just so that people could throw tomatoes at it.
- Throwing out and then arresting OAP protestors from Labour conferences who dared shout out "liar" as the warmongers on stage defended their illegal war on Iraq.
- Allowing M16 / MI5 Agents to pass questions to CIA torturers at "black site" prisons and Gitmo, who then proceeded to abuse, humiliate and injure the prisoners many of which were innocent. The ones that are not, including leaders of the now destabilised mess of a country we "liberated" called Libya, are even now trying to sue the government for their complicity in torture e.g Abdul Hakim Belhaj. This included one incident in which one British jihadi’s fingernails were ripped out after MI6 suggested that a notorious Pakistani intelligence agency detain him, and MI5 and Greater Manchester police drew up questions to be put to him.
- Cracking down on tourists and other photographers within London taking photos of buildings as they could be "planning terrorist" attacks.
We should always be careful when "new" terrorism laws are proposed. Especially as with the current one it is to be "fast tracked" through government.
This means no proper debate over the merits of the bill and no proper time to propose amendments and changes to the bill.
Hopefully enough libertarian/liberal-minded Labour, Lib Dem, SNP and hopefully Tory back benchers will stand up against this act of tyranny.
As I said in my last piece, the UK Tory Government, freed of the shackles of coalition with liberals, are planning on repealing the Human Rights Act. A piece of legislation brought in by Tony Blair in the 90's but created from the European Convention on Human Rights which was drawn up by the Tory post war government to show to the world how civilised we should all be in future.
It is sad that a future Tory government is now going to remove this legislation due to a minority of cases where they have not been able to deport criminal immigrants due to their "right to a family life".
It seems that the Tories wish that if you are born in this country and your parents are not, that if they commit a crime they can now be ripped away from you leaving you with the choice to follow them to whatever horrible war-torn country they escaped from (Libya, Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Sudan...).
The question is what level of criminality requires this response. I can understand the Government wishing to get rid of terrorists, murderers and rapists but what about non-payment of Council Tax, a crime punishable by prison, which many British born OAPs have found themselves facing? What crimes would exact this level of response, does a list even exist?
It seems we English are sticklers for the rule of law even when we don't agree with small parts of it.
Instead of just ignoring section 8 of the Human Rights Act like France does whenever it wants to do something the EU prohibits we decide to throw the whole law away.
Instead of just declaring that the house of Commons is the supreme will of the people, and that if it votes to decide to remove someone from these shores because of a REAL terrorist crime then so be it, family or not. The problem comes with all the guff these bills include that label you and me "domestic terrorists" for speaking out against the Government, war, its foreign policy, support of Israel, or other civil rights that are being chipped away bit by bit never to return.
I have no problem if a REAL terrorist who is not a British citizen is deported at the end of his or her sentence. The problem is that the Government is proposing to throw the whole Human Rights Act away to achieve this instead of coming up with another solution.
If the House of Commons IS supposed to be the supreme will of the people because we have voted for it - try to forget the UKIP member who got 0 votes despite voting for himself for a moment, we don't have voter fraud in Western Democracies, it's just nasty evil countries like Russia that do things like that. Then a vote in the house should be enough to override any appeal on Human Rights grounds due to section 8. This is as long as the case has been proved beyond doubt, the convict has had his chance at appeal, and the criminal does in fact pose a threat to the country.
I am perfectly happy to see a UK Bill of Rights on TOP of, not INSTEAD of, the Human Rights Act, to achieve such aims if needed. I just don't want to see families ripped apart over nonsensical crimes or crimes that shouldn't even exist e.g drugs, protest, freedom of speech that goes against popular view etc.
David Cameron has gone on record to say that the belief that if you as a citizen "just followed the law you would be left alone", is now going to be turned on its head.
That in itself is worrying Hilter-esque language that could be taken to mean anything.
Wasn't an Englishman's home his castle?
Were we not the creators of law as it exists in many countries through the Magna Carta, Due Process, the idea that we are all innocent until proven guilty.
What about the social contract between citizen and state that meant we plebs had our rights and the government protected them and the country as long as we paid our taxes?
As Russell Brand says in the piece below, a similar piece of legislation which the Tories are basing their own law on, was recently brought into Canada and the people were appalled by it.
It meant that:
- Innocent words can be interpreted as terrorism - make of that what you will.
- Speaking "recklessly" which could lead to a terrorist act being committed is a crime. So speaking out about the increasing authoritarian nature of our world on this blog could lead to a mentally disturbed reader to go and fly a plane into a skyscraper and I would spend 5 years in jail - fair?
- Protesting could lead to government surveillance. So any kind of protest by Unions, Students, Occupy, or anybody against the increasing Police State be warned.
- Meddling with ANY CORPORATE INTERESTS could be interpreted as terrorism under the new UK act. So protests that prevent Vodafone from opening their doors (UKUncut beware!) or the use of Bitcoin or other electronic currencies that stopped the banks from monitoring your money could now be considered a crime.
Watch the video to see more and spread it.
Our rights are being eroded and we could all soon be considered terrorists for speaking our minds, protesting corruption and the corporate take over of our life.
Is that really terrorism or just the rights we should expect to enjoy as a member of a supposedly free country?
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