Freedoms departing year on year.

I never used to worry about our freedoms being curtailed. We joined the Common Market and I did not realise that this was little more than an exercise in curbing liberties under the guise of being something benevolent, peaceful and prosperity-making.
Instead we find that the prosperity went to the remnant EFTA nations; the benevolence was a sham and the creation of peace was in a Europe where imperialistic marxist and fascist dictators were already remarkable by their complete and total absence.











So. Am I overstating the case when I speak of us moving into an Orwellian hell?
Certainly, Littlejohn does not think so!






"The clarification was necessary following the passing of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act two years earlier. This was intended to be used only in pursuit of serious crime or 'in the interests of national security'.
We could all sleep soundly in our beds. But as the Mail revealed yesterday 152 councils have admitted routinely using these powers to spy on thousands of people suspected of piffling offences, such as dog fouling and storing petrol without a licence. Even more reprehensibly, the innocent have no right to know they have been spied upon.
We were already aware that under the provisions of the act, local authorities had mounted MI5-style surveillance operations against parents suspected of trying to get their children into a school outside the catchment area, as well as a man leaving his car in a disabled parking space. These weren't isolated incidents.
Under a Freedom of Information request, it turns out only 31 out of those councils who responded have not used these powers to investigate such heinous crimes as people putting their rubbish out on the wrong day. Phones are regularly bugged and e-mails intercepted on the say-so of middle-ranking council officers. "








SCARED YET? - YOU SHOULD BE!










LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024579/National-security-The-mantra-tyrants.html