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| How Democracies Perish, British Edition |
| 2008-12-03 |
| Hat tip, Instapundit The horrific story of the latest adventure conducted by the religion of peace in Bombay riveted the publicÂ’s 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 MemberÂ’s offense? Embarrassing Gordon BrownÂ’s 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 governmentÂ’s 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 whipsÂ’ 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 governmentÂ’s failures in order to make it more accountable to the public. I wonder what George Orwell would say? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Its a constant conflict in history between those who want a static society, largely to protect the power they've accumulated, against the dynamics of human behavior. The imperial, aristocratic, and socialist static models eventual suffer from entropy which leads to decay. Then it takes a dynamic outside or internal force that overwhelms the society in which only the few with power at the top have a true vested interest in preserving. Up till recently the American republic had a reasonable structure to accommodate the dynamic, to say - ride the tiger. However, as the population progressed to better standards of living, more and more sought to control the vagaries of that dynamic and preserve their gains by imposing more and more order and control over it. In doing so, it is starting to strangle the dynamic and sliding to the static [of course all in the name of the poor, the children, - or whatever it took to keep the same players in power]. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-12-03 08:14 |
| #1 The object of the exercise seems to have been intimidation and the flaunting of power. Short of an outright, totalitarian suspension of democracy And they've accomplished it all without ACORN, an Obama Youth Army, George Soros, The Clintons, Kissenger and Assoc. or Hank Paulson. Amazing, absolutely amazing. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-12-03 07:44 |