with DaveNick-Ed.
Paranoid state snooping is a sure sign of
weak government, lack of direction and a general disintegration. It is
symptomatic of every crumbling nation in history. But ‘emergency’ legislation
to back up the state’s observation of our daily (unremarkable) lives is verging
on psychotic.
Not to mention that there are one or two more
pressing matters that require our urgent attention;
- The national health crisis
- Planetary disease emergency
- Looming ecological cataclysm
- Escalating world war III (GWI - Global War I?)
- Unsustainable profiteering by privatised utilities and collapsing infrastructure
Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera... (see cartoon
by clicking on the orange name in the right hand column)
But Dave, Nick ‘n Ed (DaveNick-Ed) have joined forces on this one. No one
in the Westminster crazy house seems to have any problem with this at all.
Firstly there is no 'emergency', unless you
configure that edgy condition in the same way Mr Orwell did; crisis as a media
induced, government sponsored, ongoing state of low-grade debilitating fear, a
stultifying neurosis.
Effective leadership has forward momentum. On
the other hand, inadequate rulers invested with power they can’t handle are
constantly looking over their shoulders.
They haven’t even found an original ruse
for their paranoid prying it’s just ‘ooooh, the bogey man is coming to get you
so we need to know whether you rang aunty Marg last Friday’ and ‘we know things
you don’t know so don’t question us’. It’s a stinking unconvincing fug. Its
smoke that gets in your eyes, ears, nose and throat until you can’t think
straight.
The irony of these claims justifying the
erosion of our liberties is that the last time we were presented with
‘sensitive’ information to justify government action, (remember the dodgy
dossiers?), we were led up the garden path – or was it the road to hell? The
last time the secret services gave the government the nod to act on our behalf
with seriously loopy information, we were taken into an illegal invasion for
which we are still counting the cost in suffering, terror and financial
devastation.
Instead of spending zillions and wasting
resources snooping on their own citizens and neighbours – the government could
try just looking around them, peer into the real world a while. They’d find
there is plenty there that needs fixing.
This week’s recommended blog from the
archives,
Blog 24 – I’m Spartacus.