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PM David Cameron Proclaims: It’s Not Enough To Follow The Law, You
Must Love Big Brother
Mike Krieger
15
May, 2015
It’s
not just those domestic extremists and crazy “conspiracy
theory” kooks who took serious issue with UK Prime Minister David
Cameron’s recent overtly fascist language when it comes to freedom
of expression in Great Britain. For example, in a post published
today, the UK
Independent describes
the quote below as “the creepiest thing David Cameron has ever
said.”
This
statement, and others like it, are a huge deal. This isn’t how
the leader of a major civilized Western so-called “democracy”
speaks to the citizenry. It is how a master talks to his slaves. How
a ruler addresses his subjects. I think the following tweet by Glenn
Greenwald earlier today sums up David Cameron’s attitude perfectly
well:
- @Independent @ggreenwald But now it is not enough to obey. You must LOVE BIG BROTHER.
A. David 
Glenn Greenwald
This is really the mentality of Her Majesty's Government RT @akaSassinak But now it is not enough to obey. You must LOVE BIG BROTHER.
Those
of us who are in disbelief over David Cameron’s recent
language, don’t have to just point to the quote above. There’s a
lot more to it than a simple quote. For example, the Guardian
reports:
The
measures would give the police powers to apply to the high court for
an order to limit the “harmful activities” of an extremist
individual. The definition of harmful
is to include a risk of public disorder, a risk of harassment, alarm
or distress or creating a “threat to the functioning of democracy”.
A
“risk of public disorder,” or a “risk of harassment alarm
or distress.” Think about that for a second. Pretty much 90% of all
speech could be classified as posing a risk to all of those things.
It’s basically banning any criticism the government doesn’t like.
Truly remarkable. Now here’s how the magnificent “democracy” of
Great Britain plans on dealing with such “extremists.”
They
would include a ban on broadcasting and a requirement to submit to
the police in advance any proposed publication on the web and social
media or in print.
The bill will also contain plans for banning orders for extremist
organizations which seek to undermine democracy or use hate speech in
public places, but it will fall short of banning on the grounds of
provoking hatred.
Although
I’m not a British citizen and have never lived in the UK, I have
spent some time writing about the disturbing trends happening across
the pond due to the historic, cultural, geopolitical and linguistic
ties between the U.S. and Great Britain. I warned all about these
dangerous trends last fall in the post, The
UK’s Conservative Party Declares War on YouTube, Twitter, Free
Speech and Common Sense.
Here are a few excerpts:
Teresa
May wants to “ban non-violent extremist groups that fall short
of the current threshold for being banned as terrorist-related
organizations.” Think about that very closely. Essentially,
she is saying non-violent groups that are currently not breaking any
laws should be criminalized by creating new laws. Once this process
begins, it will continue to be expanded and expanded until pretty
much every form of expression other than government propaganda will
be banned.
Secondly,
she notes that the new laws are necessary to combat groups that
undertake activities “for the purpose of overthrowing democracy.”
Considering that the U.S. government changes the meanings of
words at a moment’s notice, such as claiming that “imminent”
doesn’t really mean “imminent,” I
argue that an official government definition of democracy is
necessary. Moreover, what if the UK is like the U.S., a state
that claims to be a democracy, but in
reality is an oligarchy? What
are the rules about calling for the removal of an oligarchy?
Have
fun mates.
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