You surely don't believe that our government would lie to you?

I was pondering the claim by the Director of GCHQ, a Mr Robert Hannigan, that we do not have an absolute right to privacy. Presumably this is to justify the revelation that they have been illegally intercepting privileged communications between lawyers and their clients who are in litigation with the British state, something that is quite illegal. I do not accept absolutes, and so have to agree that we do not have an absolute right to anything. However, in saying that, Hannigan's motive is that he is thereby claiming that the state does have an absolute right, the right to invade your privacy whenever it wants to. 

I do not believe in absolutes because I do not believe in absolute truth. Truth is always relative and we live our lives accepting many things as the truth with the proviso that it may change. I believe it is true that I cannot walk on water and so avoid trying to walk on water in case I drown, but I do not accept that it is true that humans will never be able to walk on water. Thus, whilst I hold it to be true that a human being cannot walk on water, I do not hold it as absolute, because, it is possible that humans may indeed evolve some day to walk on water, however unlikely it may appear at this point in history. As a result, I do not accept that the state has any absolute rights.

I believe, with the Sophist Thrasymachus, that justice is the interests of the strongest. That is why the strongest must be continually restrained and constrained in their actions and ability to impose their will on the rest of society. What is happening in Britain is the result of the Thatcher experiment to remove all restraints and constraints on the strongest in society, with the result that they are increasingly imposing their will and their domination on the rest of us. Thatcher told us that she had a mission to 'roll back the state'. What she in fact meant was that she wished to weaken the state to the point that she and her cohorts and successors could successfully impose their domination on that state, and, in so doing, on the whole of society. She was particularly successful. The British state is today exactly as Karl Marx described it, a committee for managing the affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. What I find hard to accept is all of the ordinary people who work at GCHQ willingly and enthusiastically supporting the states attempts at tyranny and illegality. Lenin called such people 'useful idiots' because, when the state has successfully used these people it will just as quickly discard them and begin tapping their phones and making their lives a misery in case they blow the whistle on all the activities they subscribed to whilst they were carrying out their masters wishes.

If you truly believe anything that the Hannigan's, the Cameron's and the Miliband's of this world tell you then you genuinely deserve all you get. You have been warned

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Doktor Kommirat