It is now officially admitted by the Obama administration that the US government has made it a requirement for phone companies to provide details of all phone calls being made at any time within the United States and for all foreign calls involving American citizens. That of course includes you if you are making a call to a relative or friend in America. This practice, begun by George Bush has been systematically denied by the American government until it was revealed by the Guardian newspaper. Thus, the American government has not only been illegally spying on its own people but lying through its teeth.
The Conservatives are desperate to introduce this practice in the UK, and the Home Secretary Theresa May has been quite open about the fact that she will not stop trying to get such powers until she succeeds. All of this is being done on the excuse of their so-called war on terror, when of course it is no such thing, that is the excuse, it is not the reason. The reason is that they wish to know everything about everyone who opposes anything they do, of which so-called terrorists plots are only a tiny fraction of that.
Similarly, they have just announced that they are going to give the police powers to issue spot fines to motorists. This is simply a sly way of introducing another form of indirect taxation and has nothing to do with road safety. For example, you may now be fined £100 if you persist in driving in the middle lane of a motorway. Now, I confess that people doing this make me mad, but I hardly think that it qualifies as a criminal offence.
It is long overdue that we have a serious and national debate as to the roles and functions of government in this country. Governments have no rights, only people have rights, and governments of all parties now take it for granted that they have the right to do whatever they want, and, because they have been elected into power, they insist that we must accept what they do. There are no skills required to be a member of parliament, no training, all that is required is to be able to harness a sufficient number of votes. Politicians are people just like you or me, they may be a teacher, or a doctor, or a cleaner, or unemployed and the next day find themselves in parliament. as a result no politician has any right for any reason to demand to know that kind of information or to criminalise driving in the centre lane of a motorway, especially politicians who are themselves terrorists and lawbreakers.
I have spoken here about how our government's have thrown people into jail without charge or even knowing why they are there, and we now have proof that people have been incarcerated in Belmarsh prison without charge, reason, or access to lawyers. I will leave you with the thoughts of Winston Churchill who was Prime minister during the Second World War and who wrote in 1943
"The
power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge
known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers – is,
in the highest degree, odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian
government." Any such power, Churchill continued, was a response to
emergency "that should be yielded up, when and as, the emergency declines
... This is really the test of civilisation."
By this criteria, British government is both odious and uncivilised and we are failing as a civilised society. In addition we are descending into totalitarianism. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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