Bag's Rants

This covers everything Blair's cabinet does but cannot be true.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
- C. S. Lewis God in the Dock

Now I've been thinking about this for a while. There are many things been done by our current government under the guise of looking after us and for our own good. I have heard the first quote used as a possible explanation for the actions of our wonderful leaders and although I believe that quote is probably more suited to the actions of their minions working in the great government machine that provides us with services such as tax, pensions, security etc. The second quote is, again, used to explain away the actions of our beloved leaders but again I am forced to believe that quote is more suited to the loud mouthed few do gooders that our government seems surrounded by and it feeds them the scraps of our liberal justice system and our welfare system to keep them in line and supporting the eroding of our rights.

In the last few weeks it just seems as if Blair and his minions are pushing faster and faster down a path that is so divorced from the culture we have grown up in that it is inconceivable how it can be explained away by incompetence or for our own good even by the most generous of people. Additionally it seems that now many of those followers are also questioning these policies.

I went down to see one of my old pals at Aldermaston today. We had a bit of a chat and my pal admits he is one of the least political guys going. He barely knows what is going on outside his little area yet he knew of some of the things going on in the real world which he was unhappy about and when I was talking about some of the things I was aware of from my travels around the blogs he was incredulous. He just did not believe what was going on as it was a lot worse than he thought and he was not pleased as it was. Even he had noticed the changes and thought it was concerning never mind Mr Average who actually pays attention.

This change in the wind should make Blair and his minions concerned. Yet, he seems unfazed while his puppets are starting to get concerned in the run up to the May elections. I can only assume that he is unconcerned and is still pushing for changes as he knows he will have sufficient time to implement his central government changes before he has to face 2009. He knows that the local councils are powerless and thus couldn't care less what happens next month. His local councilors being of little interest to him. It only makes you wonder what he will do before 2009 that leaves him in a position to ignore the populace and his own party members. Will we even be able to hold elections in 2009 or will our conversion to tyranny be complete?

It is going to take force to remove this guy and his cabal of henchmen like Clarke, Blunkett etc. I think I'll write to the President of the US and ask for his help in removing a Tyrant. One with nuclear capability but uninterested in the freedoms that is every humans right. Mmmm. Sounds like a plan to me. I've had my capability of doing anything else removed.

posted by Bag @ 10:11 pm