sweetheart
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Tue Aug-30-05 06:04 AM
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Are we reduced to government by fear? |
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Is that it? Are we to fear the government, as an agent just around the corner, waiting to expose our moral infidelity, or can government just give it a rest, and impose no social doctrine.
Isn't it all about multiculturalism in that sense, a rejection of the foreign and the alien towards creating a mythical collective identity to keep us all "british". And in the pursuit of freedom, can we not be expected to reject imposed and foreign identities. And if egaletarianism itself is "british", then what sort of thing is spread by tabloid centrallist control freak warmongers that has a claim to be british.
And then its like a cultural dyslexia, where the conscience majority is ignored by a control freakery minority that thinks in terms of war, weapons proliferation and refitting nuclear armaments.
And what are these armaments for ? Fear? Then how can government claim to represent goodwill? How can a cultural identity be based on anything but respect for human rights? Since when is a small minority of ruthless media barons permitted the liberty of corrupting civil society by spreading the mind states of fear.
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mr blur
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Tue Aug-30-05 06:25 AM
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1. This government should be fearing the people, |
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in view of the appalling disasters it seems set on inflicting on us. Blair appears to have completely lost his head. Please tell me that it's not just wishful thinking to think that the British will not fall for the vicious crap that so much of the US seems to be gleefully eating up. As someone who is proud of the things Socialism have done for this country, it's heartbreaking to see what Slimey Tony and his sharp-suited spivs are doing. It's the '80s all over again, except that the ones who are fucking us over are vaguely faintly pink rather than true blue.
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sweetheart
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Tue Aug-30-05 04:23 PM
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2. It is worrysome indeed |
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I noticed in a tabloid scan today, from the daily record to the daily mail, the universal editorial standard is nihilistic banality and if they are to rule the country, when why arn't they elected?
I really hope ken clarke comes libertarian and wins against blair on a "freedom" platform. Its been too long tolerating a totalitarian after so many opportunities, blair has squandered goodwill on killing, and a police state of ever-expanding state employment.
And mediocrity abounds. Ken Clarke looks like he's found his spine, and is gonna maybe invigorate something very different in the conservatives, actual individual responsibility and privacy to smoke a fag and have it be nobody's fucking business in your private life.... to shag a willing adult of any pursuasion and have it be no body's fucking business... oh were we to have honourable conservatives, standing for "fuck off government invasiveness", then the ball could swing a 4th way, outside the court of bush conservatism in to a wiser branch.
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Thu Sep-08-05 04:31 PM
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3. Wow! If you exchanged the word |
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British with American---you would be saying what the majority of Americans are saying right now.
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