State to obtain new, sweeping ‘Big Brother’ Powers

According to the Telegraph, as the headline of their article sets out, Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, is planning broad new ‘Big Brother’ surveillance powers.

This part of the piece really struck me:

“The move comes after the police and the security services warned that criminals were becoming increasingly sophisticated in their use of technology to avoid detection.”

Why do they continue to treat us all like idiots? Politicians and law enforcement bodies have been telling us this bullshit since the Peelers set up shop in London in the early 19th century.

If we went by the logic of the government, then by now we ought to be living in the most repressive state the world has ever seen, making the Third Reich and Stalin’s Soviet Union look like a lazy afternoon at Disney World.

Criminals have always tried to get ahead of the game. This has happened in all countries throughout all ages. It’s not an excuse for the state to seek to assert itself over the people, using means that are harsh, draconian and utterly against civil liberties. Most people don’t want these measures put in place. People think the state has gone far far enough – bar a gaggle of disgruntled, ignorant Sun & Mail reading malcontents who take the McKenzie line towards powers taken by the state to “combat terror”.

The fact is, measures like these only serve to add fuel to the fire. They suppress the law abiding, decent majority of people, and fail to actually harness the bad guys. It’s always the way with these repressive measures, they disproportionately hurt the regular folks, while the criminal elements take advantage of whatever it is at their disposal – fear, intimidation, communities that don’t speak out, left wing ‘human rights’ legislation and a completely emasculated criminal justice and sentencing system.

Labour keep ratcheting up the measures, and increasing the vice like grip over the people using authoritarian means and new laws that seem to come in droves each year.

We now live in a police state, with ever increasing numbers of streets covered with CCTV cameras and with police, either PCSOs or regulars, swarming all over the shop. (Police numbers have gone through the roof since the 1930s).

Yet whatever they decide to introduce to keep one step ahead of these crafty criminals and terrorists, it never seems to work.

Well, that’s because the law is soft on those found guilty. And because immigration has been allowed to get out of hand. Really rather simple, to be honest. Yet people like me are slammed as the nasty extreme right wingers, while authoritarian left wing fuck bags like Smith and her Labour colleagues are seemingly untouchable in their approach to law and order. Even though they are more hardcore and extreme than anyone in government since the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) 1914 was introduced.

Of course, Labour won’t contemplate upsetting their liberal leftist and Marxist friends by getting tough on the criminals. No, far better to make it an all round measure that keeps us all down equally. How very egalitarian.

Of course, Labour won’t contemplate coming down hard on immigration, as this would be utterly counter-intuitive from a left wing, Labour political perspective. They are simply building the grim, flat lined, bankrupt society that will help keep them in power for an age.

These people need booting out, and booting out fast.