Excellent analysis. Most of the ill-thought out and frankly dangerous measures being proposed in the wake of the crisis are as sensible as shutting the stable door to keep the fox out of the hen house (and in some cases slaughtering the plough horse and the pigs as well, in order to achieve the same end).
I think there's three things going on here. First is a desire by politicians to appear tough and do _something_, what that something is doesn't matter as long as it looks good. Second is panic, they don't know what to do, and don't actually understand the issues surrounding, and implications of their actions. This leads on to a third factor: the exploitation of this ignorance, panic and stupidity both among the public and decision makers, by the secret state and various jumped up authoritarian twits in cahoots with them, in order to push through dangerous laws that they have long wanted on the nod. This is precisely what I expected when the catastrophe first occurred.
I've been pleased to see that a cross-party campaign against ID cards has already started. The pressure must be kept up. If we lose one bit of freedom because of this, it's a victory for the bad guys.
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threats to liberty
Date: 2001-10-01 05:12 am (UTC)I think there's three things going on here. First is a desire by politicians to appear tough and do _something_, what that something is doesn't matter as long as it looks good. Second is panic, they don't know what to do, and don't actually understand the issues surrounding, and implications of their actions. This leads on to a third factor: the exploitation of this ignorance, panic and stupidity both among the public and decision makers, by the secret state and various jumped up authoritarian twits in cahoots with them, in order to push through dangerous laws that they have long wanted on the nod. This is precisely what I expected when the catastrophe first occurred.
I've been pleased to see that a cross-party campaign against ID cards has already started. The pressure must be kept up. If we lose one bit of freedom because of this, it's a victory for the bad guys.
Soph xxx