fascism
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Leaked UK gov’t doc reveals plan to “coerce” Brits into national ID register January 29, 2008
Taken from the leaked government document From: Cory Doctorow Phil from the UK anti-ID-register group NO2ID sends in this nugget — note the call to action there. We’ve got a sensitive government document revealing the British government’s plan to trick us into a database state and we need as many copies as possible, as quickly Continue reading
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Wakey-Wakey! By William Bowles
I’m tempted to say that the British have, with Tony Blair’s corporatist, security state, gotten no better than they deserve. After all, though deeply in debt, by and large they live in a kind of comfort zone albeit one that insulates them from the realities of a world gone totally insane. Continue reading
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Sleepwalking into Slavery? By William Bowles
The great British public, apparently don’t think that home secretary’s Clarke’s proposed additions to the anti-terror legislation including the 90-day detention without trial, apply to them, at least as far as we know, as nobody has actually asked them. Perhaps they need to be reminded that almost identical laws were passed by the Apartheid regime… Continue reading
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Mantra politics By William Bowles
Once the state acquires such draconian powers it is unlikely to give them up voluntarily. We need only look at countries that have adopted comparable laws whether it be Mussolini’s Fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain, through to the various Latin American dictatorships and how they were removed, not that removing them necessarily guarantees removal of the… Continue reading
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Eat your heart out Mussolini By William Bowles
15 October 2004 “We control political forces, we control moral forces we control economic forces, therefore we are a full-blown Corporative state.” – Benito Mussolini [1] The database state Six million video surveillance cameras, biometric ID cards, transnational data interception laws and ‘joined up’ government. Add to this the privatisation of key state functions, all Continue reading
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More, or rather, less on the ‘Civil Contingencies Bill’ By William Bowles
Amazing isn’t it, a bill which if passed, that along with the 2000 Terrorism Act, pretty well entrenches total state control over the citizen, barely gets a mention in the media. The BBC in its News at One programme yesterday (25/11/03) didn’t even mention it as being included in Queenie’s speech. Later, on PM News… Continue reading
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Blair builds the corporate state William Bowles
Blair is playing the leadership ‘take me or leave me’ shtick borrowed, lock, stock and barrel from Thatcher. In a pitch aimed directly at Labour Party members who are extremely unhappy with the direction that the government is going, Blair harked back to previous Labour governments, that, much as the Democracts in the US did,… Continue reading
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