rational geekery

I just watched the latest episode of Dispatches on Channel Four, presented by political commentator Peter Hitchens. It was an excellent summary of the unbridled curbing of civil liberties by this Labour Government, and their questionable justification for the growing state.

There was, predictably, an air of the Daily Mail in the film; but this should not divert the viewer from the reality of the Blair administration, and their constant affronts to both British justice, and the innate freedoms we hold dear.

Think I’m exaggerating? How about this from the horse’s mouth: -

In theory, traditional court processes and attitudes to civil liberties could work. But the modern world is different from the world for which these court processes were designed.

I’m sorry Tony, but if we burn Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, what exactly are we fighting to protect?