When the government tells us we have nothing to worry about if we have nothing to hide, that is a quite ridiculous and unacceptable argument, and it is an attitude of mind that we must vigorously challenge in our rulers. These people cannot seem to distinguish between privacy and secrecy. We all have secrets, and we all have a right to our secrets as long as they do not threaten anyone else. But more important, we all have a right to privacy that supersedes any right a government may claim to invade that privacy. For example, we not only have a right to privacy in our bedrooms and our toilet, but no-one, in whatever capacity, has the right, for any reason, to remove our bedroom and toilet doors so that they can invade that privacy. Such areas of our lives are ours, and cannot be claimed as legitimate areas of interest by anyone else. Not only do we have the right to privacy in the bedroom and the toilet, but we have a right to secrecy, as its no-one else's business what we do there, regardless of how accurate their assessment of what we are doing. I may be doing things in the bedroom and the toilet that you find disgusting or unacceptable, but, as long as they are doing nobody else any harm, that is no-one's business. Now, what the authorities are telling us is that they have a right to invade such areas of our lives, in case we are planning to do other people harm, but that is not a legitimate argument. When anyone, whether police, security, or government, attempts to claim that they have a legitimate interest in what we do in such areas of our life, then that is a step too far. My phone is private, as is my email, or text messages. What I convey to other people by phone, text, or email is my secret and must only be revealed to the people I choose to reveal them to. No government or government agency has any right whatsoever to invade such areas of my life, and certainly no right to share them with the United States or any other country. British politicians and their security services are actually working on the premise that whatever they do or say is private, but everything else is public. They are the only people in society that have any rights to either privacy or secrecy, and if we challenge such notions then we will be treated as a terrorist.
Now that we know that such activity is exactly what the government and its agencies are indeed doing then it is now that we should be asking what the purpose of government is, and holding these people to account. Britain is swiftly descending into a police and security state in which the police and security services have abandoned their fundamental functions of protecting us, and have adopted the role of protecting a small and privileged elite and promoting their interests at the expense of the rest of the population. Rather than protect the people, they are in fact preventing the people from challenging the ruling elite and holding them to account. They are adopting a mindless approach that simply obeys orders from their superiors on the assumption that their superiors must be both correct and superior to the rest of society. They are also treating everyone in the UK as a potential terrorist. There is something deeply sick and psychopathic about people who spend their lives reading people's Facebook and Twitter accounts, it is the lowest kind of voyeurism imaginable, but there is something deeply sinister in the politicians who employ them to do so. Thus, it is not the people of Britain who have anything to hide, it is our politicians and security services.
It must never be forgotten that government is derivative, and derives it roles and functions from the people who elect it into government. Governments do not have rights, only people have rights. Governments are simply people like you and me who happen to waken up some morning and find that they have been elected into office. They are not in government because they are superior to you and me, or have special gifts, talents and abilities. They are in government simply because they managed to harness enough votes to win an election. If we elect people into parliament who have particular talents then that is actually a fortunate accident, we have no way of knowing that before they take office, and if you look at the personnel that occupy government at this time in the United Kingdom, then you can only conclude that we often make terrible mistakes. The Westminster system is sick, and is beginning to look terminal. But it is infecting most of the major institutions in our society to the point that someone like me may not have very long left to exercise the freedom to post blogs like this. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat.
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