The British are petrified by their own shadow, according to opposition leader Michael Howard; they are horrified of al Qaida, naturally, although Muslims never actually attack us, but “eighteen year-olds who tip over rubbish bins” (happens all the time) are a far greater terror and people find it so intimidating, they are afraid to go outside. “We need better security” they wail and beg for more police and less bins. The fear is tangible as they cower behind the State for protection.

It’s not sufficient for the Conservative Party that New Labour has abolished civil liberties altogether and replaced them with biometric I.D’s and total surveillance, that does not go far enough. Indefinite detention without trial by jury, on the suspicion that one may commit a crime, sometime… is too lenient; the Tories would like the whole populace born on parole, better safe than sorry. The only rights we will have are to be micro-chipped and die by euthanasia when our uses are exhausted.

In the interim, we will ‘Labour’ to build record prisons to accommodate offenders, like litterlouts, while Howard recruits a whole army of police with tazers, batons and CS gas and that is just to catch felons fast-forwarding the adverts on DVD’s, or folk with cannabis in their bloodstream. Ashtray violation… go, go, go…!  What? Too many able bodies languishing in jail? Okay, the military is in dire need of soldiers to expand the Middle East conflict, convicts make good cannon fodder.

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/november2004/241104everyoffence.htm