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How Democracies Perish, British Edition
Hat tip, InstapunditThe horrific story of the latest adventure conducted by the religion of peace in Bombay riveted the publics attention to such an extent that one of the most egregious violations of political freedom in a Western democracy has, at least on this side of the Atlantic, gone almost without comment. We always ask "why our tranzi ruling classes love Islam so much?". I mean the sudden arrest in London last week of of Damian Green, a conservative MP and Shadow Minister for Immigration, who was seized by anti-terrorist personnel from the Metropolitan police, held for questioning for 9 hours, and whose private papers and computer files in his home and office in the House of Commons were confiscated. The Honorable Members offense? Embarrassing Gordon Browns government. How did he do this? By revealing in debate on the floor of the House of Commons and in various lapses, failures, and dirty-little-secrets about the governments immigration policy, e.g., * the fact that the home secretary knew that the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers, but decided not to publicise it. * the fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons. * A whips list of potential Labour rebels in the vote on plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days. In other words, Mr. Green was doing exactly what a member of the Opposition should do: shedding light on the governments failures in order to make it more accountable to the public. I wonder what George Orwell would say? Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-12-03 |
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