Here’s A Thought…

Back in 1945, Winston Churchill, then still Prime Minister, made the supposedly heavily criticised claim that if the Labour Party won those elections, they would ‘fall back on some kind of Gestapo’ to subjugate and control the electorate.

How prophetic. He was completely correct in his observation – except for the year. I think he must actually have been describing our current Labour Government with their torrent of legislation criminalising the ordinary person, attempts to spy on us night and day with compulsory identity cards, and monitoring us with secret organisations such as SOCA.

Where Does The Law Stand?

Sometimes you really do have to question where the law stands in this country, and just whom it aims to serve.

Over the weekend in Bristol, a batch of pure heroin reportedly caused the deaths of two drug addicts while leaving another two seriously ill in hospital after near fatal overdoses.

Subsequently, the police issued a city-wide warning to help raise awareness by calling for all Bristol drugs users to remain vigilant and take extra precautions when injecting themselves.

Since, in fact, the use of heroin is illegal, why are the police calling for criminals to be ‘careful’ when breaking the law? Perhaps the police should also be warning people to pay special attention when they speed on the motorway, or advising would-be murders to take extra care with knives or firearms in case they accidentally injure themselves in the course of a criminal act?

Will either bed-ridden Bristol addict be prosecuted for drug abuse? Highly unlikely, since the law no longer seems to condemn individual users, and quite often indulges them in their ‘illness’ as if it were similar to a common cold which can be caught without any individual responsibility.

Comparably, if you wish to break the law by using or selling drugs, then the likelihood of any retribution is so slim as to be almost negligible. On the other hand however, should you wish to stage a peaceful protest outside the home of Government in the nation’s capital, then you’ll be met with unbridled force and the full fury of the criminal legislative system.

So long as the authorities and the Government continue to believe that drug abusers, like criminals, are themselves victims of social problems caused by relative poverty and the state’s inadequacy to nanny them into submission, then Britain’s drugs problems will only grow, and public trust in the police will only decline yet further.

Brian Haw Behind Bars

It’s taken the Government a fair while, but at long last they’ve succeeded in placing the anti-war protestor, Brian Haw, behind bars. Well, almost.

The Greater London Authority has erected a ‘security fence’ around Mr Haw’s camp in Parliament Square to supposedly prevent homeless people setting up tent on the grass. All war protestors except for Mr Haw have been removed from the site.

In addition to the fence, a spokesman for the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, claimed that, ‘Parliament Square is not a campsite and no city can tolerate a situation where people are setting up tents and urinating and defecating on one of its central squares’. So the group of protestors are now apparently a health and safety hazard too.

Last May, Scotland Yard wasted a total of £111,000 of taxpayer’s money on an overnight raid to remove the majority of the protest placards which adorned his camp in Parliament Square – all under the guise of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

It seems the powers that be really are scrapping the bottom of the barrel for excuses and reasons to prevent Mr Haw and his associates from publicly disagreeing with their policies. I am not anti-war myself, but I do believe Mr Haw and others like him have a legitimate right to stage a public protest against something with which they do not agree.

Our Increasingly Violent Society

It seems that rarely a day goes by without another senseless and preventable murder taking place in Britain.

Yesterday, a man died in a London hospital a week after being stabbed and punched by two youths he confronted over throwing litter through his car window. At the weekend, Garry Newlove, died of injuries sustained when he approached a gang of teenagers who were damaging property in the road outside his house.

Sadly, it would seem that these attacks are becoming far more frequent and in certain areas almost common place. This is especially true of the big cities such as London, Nottingham, Manchester and Birmingham.

It is arguable that the increase in violence could be perceptive; that because the media now reports on these cases more widely and regularly than in the past, then people fear a threat which is, in reality, not actually increasing. However, I do not accept that to be true. Independent crime surveys continue to show a substantial increase in violent crime, with even the Government’s own manipulated figures showing a worryingly rapid rise.

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