"There's nothing to worry about if you've done nothing wrong."
When you hear those weasel words from apologists for identity cards and draconian anti-terror laws, just remind them, gently (or with a fist to the throat, if you prefer) of the story of Walter Wolfgang, which we talked about yesterday.
For doing nothing more than shouting, "Nonsense" at some here-today-gone-tomorrow Labour empty suit, this man was not only forcibly ejected from the conference hall, which was bad enough, but also detained by the Police under the anti-terror laws, and refused re-entry to the hall under those same laws
So, in case it wasn't clear enough for the morons who support identity cards: daring to shout at a politician (let alone throwing eggs or manure, which is what they deserve) gets you branded as a "terrorist." As Simon Hoggart pointed out on yesterday's Guardian, people weren't even allowed to take sweeties into the conference hall, lest they choose to throw them at the "Four legs good, two legs better" piggies on the top table.
As we know, you're also a terrorist if you complain in a shop, at an airport, or in the bank. Not only will there often be hired thugs to bully you, but there will always be some shitbird public official who will treat you as a criminal and demand to see your papers - for no other reason than that the law says you have to carry them. Some skinny little individual with a Hitler moustache in the Post Office, for example, will demand them as a proof of identity for something you ordered from Amazon. You might not think that's so bad, but then they'll ask to see them before they'll let you into the Congestion Charge Zone, and when they stop you for having one headlight, and where will it end?
There's an over-used quotation about this sort of thing. "First they came for the Jews, and I said nothing." And so forth. But how appropriate it is here, and how stunningly inept of them to pick on a Holocaust survivor as one of their earliest, and most public, victims.
The only saving grace about corruption is that the corrupt are often inept. They have too much power, so they don't have to be clever about wielding it. So this is the first sign that all those promises about not abusing their anti-terror powers were so much hot air.
Don't let them get away with it.
For doing nothing more than shouting, "Nonsense" at some here-today-gone-tomorrow Labour empty suit, this man was not only forcibly ejected from the conference hall, which was bad enough, but also detained by the Police under the anti-terror laws, and refused re-entry to the hall under those same laws
So, in case it wasn't clear enough for the morons who support identity cards: daring to shout at a politician (let alone throwing eggs or manure, which is what they deserve) gets you branded as a "terrorist." As Simon Hoggart pointed out on yesterday's Guardian, people weren't even allowed to take sweeties into the conference hall, lest they choose to throw them at the "Four legs good, two legs better" piggies on the top table.
As we know, you're also a terrorist if you complain in a shop, at an airport, or in the bank. Not only will there often be hired thugs to bully you, but there will always be some shitbird public official who will treat you as a criminal and demand to see your papers - for no other reason than that the law says you have to carry them. Some skinny little individual with a Hitler moustache in the Post Office, for example, will demand them as a proof of identity for something you ordered from Amazon. You might not think that's so bad, but then they'll ask to see them before they'll let you into the Congestion Charge Zone, and when they stop you for having one headlight, and where will it end?
There's an over-used quotation about this sort of thing. "First they came for the Jews, and I said nothing." And so forth. But how appropriate it is here, and how stunningly inept of them to pick on a Holocaust survivor as one of their earliest, and most public, victims.
The only saving grace about corruption is that the corrupt are often inept. They have too much power, so they don't have to be clever about wielding it. So this is the first sign that all those promises about not abusing their anti-terror powers were so much hot air.
Don't let them get away with it.
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Friday, September 30, 2005
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