Terrorism is not an excuse for the loss of our liberties
By Dark PolitricksThe war on terror has been used by the UK government as a battering ram to the rights of the citizens of this country. New laws have been passed including 2 new terrorism acts (2000 and 2006) which have restricted free speech, the rights of demonstrators to protest and have given the police new powers of stop and search and lets not forget the 28 days detention and control orders.
Now you may say "well you have nothing to fear unless you have something to hide" which is a bend over attitude that leads to fascism. I am not a terrorist but nor are most people who have been affected by this new age of fighting terrorism.
Its the thin edge of the wedge which has taken advantage of peoples justifiable fears about terrorist attacks to introduce laws that if only applied to real terrorists would be fine however who can forget the 82 year old Walter Wolfgang who was dragged out of the Labour conference for heckling Jack Straw under the terrorism act in 2005. Or what about Gordon Brown invoking the terrorism act to freeze Iceland's bank accounts during 2008?
Just these two acts alone prove how our government intends to use these new powers for reasons other than fighting terrorism.
Once the public has been forced into a mindset that demands protection from unseen shadowy terrorists and that they must be dealt with severely it then allows the government to widen the scope of what actually constitutes terrorism.
One day you are a protester exercising your legal right of protest the next you are a terrorist trying to overthrow the state with subversive acts. Take a look over the pond to see how the US government is trying to class gun owners, ex servicemen and Ron Paul supporters as domestic terrorists.
It seems that the US constitution is slowly being eroded bit by bit. I never used to understand the Americans fascination with their right to bear guns however the more I have read up about Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers and their desire to protect the people against the tyranny of government it makes perfect sense. I especially love the following two quotes that Jefferson made:
"No man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."I have come to have a renewed respect for the founding fathers of America and the contemporary patriots who want the US government to return to the constitution. The world would be a quieter and probably safer place if it did.
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not .warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Even though Jefferson and Washington kicked their British rulers out during the war of Independence us Brits must never forget that the father of the revolution was Thomas Paine an Englishman whose books the Age of Reasonand the Rights of Man had enormous influence on the Age of Enlightenment and the revolutions of France and America.
Two new republics were born that decreed that man had inalienable rights that could not be taken away by government. Therefore when people see their government treating their constitution as "just a piece of paper"as George Bush famously called it and trampling over their rights including the right to bear arms as if their inalienable rights were just an outdated idea that had no place in this century then I can see why they get so upset over the 2nd amendment.
Here in the UK its too late as we are currently a disarmed nation since the massacres of Dunblane and Hungerford took our guns away but then unlike the Americans we never had an inalienable right to bare arms anyway.
In fact although the UK passed the first ever bill of rights in 1689 it was never thought necessary for us to have a written constitution like the French and Americans.
I personally think it would be in our own best interests to draw up our own document as soon as possible. Yes we have the Human Rights act of 1998 which the right wing media decries and complains about almost every other day as something that has been imposed on us from Europe. However ridiculous the examples the Daily Mail and Express use to denigrate this act seem we should never feel that getting rid of that act would be in our best interest.
Civil rights have been hard fought and won through years of battle between state and its populace and any document that tries to enshrine our rights for future prosperity should be cherished and held in high esteem. We should also remember that it was British lawyers that drew up the Europen Convention on human rights in 1950, that the act is based on, after the horrors of the second world war. So we should view this act as yet another example of us Brits bringing civil rights to the world rather than Europe imposing some alien concept on us.
From the Magna Carta in 1215, through to John Lockes and Thomas Hobbes social contract between man and the state through to the first Bill of Rights and then the Human Rights act we Brits have been at the forefront of civil rights and we should not let the fear of terrorism allow any of these hard won rights to be taken away as once gone they will probably not come back unless a Liberal Democrat government gets in power which seems most unlikely.
We are slowly walking down the path to a place that I don't want to call home. When George Orwells 1984 starts to become a commentary on modern times then we must all stop and ask ourselves what the hell is going on.
By Dark Politricks
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GOD HELP US ALL….
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Firstly, the Rothschilds didn’t make huge sums on the back of the Battle of Waterloo. When access was granted to their archives, it showed that the Rothschilds had contracted to supply gold to Wellington’s army, and had gambled on a protracted campaign. Since the battle was over quickly, the Rothschilds had to sell their gold at a substantial loss. Some bond dealing on the day mitigated their losses but they basically ended up even.
Secondly, Nathan Rothschild never said the “I care not what puppet” quote. It’s a complete fabrication.
If people want to hate Jews then fine, go and hate them, but at least try and be honest.
The only secrets are the BOE nominees, e.g what they invest in through that mechanism.
There is a video on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8irQifrpmEY in which Norman Dodd, an extremely experienced 82 year old ‘accountant,’ investigating US tax exempt foundations in the 1920′s and 30′s discovered that they the board members of these foundations, Rockefeller, Carnegie etc had worked out long ago that the most profitable event for them was war so, with profit in mind, they should endeavour, with all their considerable energies, to find the most effective way of making sure there always was one and also, through the state education system, how the citizens would learn both to accept and expect them. That’s capitalism for you and the banks own capitalism. In the end its just the bottom line. War makes the most money and also the most debt and so illicits the most control. Therefore…. welcome to the military industrial complex.
Standard journalism is a complete nonsense, points made earlier about the Associated Press and Reuters are true. Whatever means the Bank of England or its board of members are using to control the monetary system in this country its as obviously fixed as it is across the world by FED subsidiaries: World Bank, IMF, BIS, ECB, WTO, Goldman, Chase, Morgan etc. Countries everywhere are still paying for wars started by the CIA, MI5, Mossad and other ‘government agencies’ long ago it has been going on for hundreds of years. SS Maine, Lusitania, SS Madox, even Hitler funded by Prescott Bush with brother of Paul (father of the FED) Max Warburg running IG Fabern. If the Versailles Treaty and the armistice falling on the 11/11/11 (bankers number for judgement and destruction; 9/11, 7/7 7×11) is a coincidence considering it was also signed at the Rothschild’s house then the odds against must be 16 000 000 000 000: 1 which, by another incredible coincidence, is the current debt the US people owe to the FED.
Get rid of the bankers or they’ll get rid of you; standard rules of financial competition apply. Its the only way.
Yes war is a racket.
Yes the CIA is the army Capitalism uses to further US corportations influence and they have a black budget funded by drug running so they don’t have to ask Congress for money. If you have time read this 4 part series on the history of CIA drug running > http://www.darkpolitricks.com/cia-involvement-in-drug-smuggling-part-1/
It also explains why some people saw planes and others didn’t as well as showing how witnesses who came out were threatened to keep quiet by the government