"Britain's infamous identity cards, CCTV, biometrics and DNA scanners will make people more free by making them more secure, he said yesterday in defence of his security strategy."

Yes, and also "arbeit macht frei".

Another excuse to take taxes and give it to their chums.

MPs get away with fraud like the conservative who was "renting" his own home from himself and claiming that as expenses. The other MPs investigating him said it was an honest mistake. Huh? How is that in anyway honest?

They take tax from us, take the money, give it to your rich friends.

They tell us plastic bags are bad for the air and we may have to pay 20p for bag. But they won't reduce the tax on fitting Solar Panels.

Gordon Brown - same as all the rest. We need less of these fleas.

Liberty cannot be portioned out by any government. The best any government can do is fail to take our liberty.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet?

What Gordon Brown is really saying is... "It's ok for us to wield all this power over your liberty, because we're the good guys... we're not like those bad regimes and juntas you hear about, we could do no wrong, honest"

There's only one problem with this...
It's bollox.

It's also a door once opened, we'll never keep closed. Liberty lost has to be fought back with lots of blood...

Thank you for another fine insightful article Mr. Ballard!
I can relate to this from just last evening, your time. I was attempting to eschew the old chowhound with a Wii Polo workout in the altogether. I was taking the bump from four in a gallop whilst beginning the second chukker, when my stick caught up conkerwise of my filly's halter. She shimmy bucked and threw me, all the while hoofing me head. I recovered, but will use a Shetland Pony henceforth. Incidently, you can still buy the kit for Wii Polo over at Nags-R-Us.com. Avoid the whinnying mount, she bites. Anyhoo, this horseplay would certainly have brought the Neighbourhood Watch Alliance (NWA) out against me, were it not for the knackerless efforts of constable Angel, and his band of merry hoodies; who had the foresight to spray paint all the CCTV lenses in the dark. Oh sure, you can chuck it up to another "Hot Fuzz" steamy night in rural Gloucestershire, but we should be concerned about the greater threat of these crop-circling, peeping tom Aliens that are juggling about like gypsies, Germans on holiday, the French, and those insufferable, aging Mad Cows. Oh and don't forget the bloody Yanks. The merchant bankers are just out for a sure bet, odds on favorite, for fleecing our sheepskins... Oh Evils, have you seen my riding crop lying about? Oi! I need a bit of a lie down and chiller for me head.

When I read "Brown" it reminded me of the Nazis and the GESTAPO. Sorry.

I've always said Terrorism is a monopoly of the politicians. This just goes to prove me right. Throw away our liberties in the false hopes our government gives us - what a load of codswollop Mr Brown tries to fool us with - what do we look like, americans?

yeah,

that's great then,

protecting liberty,

by putting everyone in a database and recording everything they do.

Very,

...free, yeah, free.

I feel so much,

safer,

yeah, that's it,

safer,

and free,



Sigh,

well what else could you expect from a government that is so afraid of kids dancing that it bans such activity.

I think I read a book about it,

what was it called?

Something with a number in it,

48?

Nah,

2008?

Oh now I remember,

it was 1984,

and in it they had security,

yes,

a very secure society,

admirable even.

No doubt a great inspiration for the current administration.

Fascists?!! Us?!! Noooo...

We're not fascists,

we're a free democracy,

very free,

and secure,

with parlamentism.




... that '1984' only applied to American conservatives. The thing most readers of Orwell's classic ignored, was that it spoke out against all government. Enjoy your liberty and let us yanks know how it feels, it looks like our next president (whichever it is) will take us right along behind you....

Might start with not loosing government Top Secret documents all over the place, eh Gordon ?
Or will ID cards put a stop to that too ?