Brits Only - The Freedom Bill

[BeautifulBurnout]

Chris Huhne of the LibDems announced today that they will be tabling a Freedom Bill to roll back some of the most pernicious anti-civil liberties legislation our country has ever had to endure.

Article here in the Graun (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/feb/26/liberal-democrats-civil-liberties?commentpage=2&commentposted=1)

This is excellent news. The only one of the mainstream parties to actually come up with the goods on this issue which has been bugging the life out of me (pun intended :p) for years now.

Any Brits who want to show their support can sign a petition here:

http://freedom.libdems.org.uk/petition/

Time to take our lives back from the controlling hands of the State.

[Deckard]

Good call - will be signing that straight away.

[Rog]

At last!:)

[Dirty0900]

Signed,sealed er...delivered?

[Sean]

Great news! Good luck to you all getting it through....

[Tiger]

signed as despite a couple of things on there which i have issues with the amount of legislation that's been passed in the last ten years which never appeared in any election manifesto is frightening

[BeautifulBurnout]

Well... I am putting my neck on the line with this one and have decided (with the support of a bunch of guys and gals from The Guardian "Comment is Free" section) to finally put my money where my mouth is and organise a demo and a variety of other lobbying events in relation to this. The final straw for me was Straw, (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/27/freedom-of-information-straw) who wrote a comment piece for the Guardian last week that had me so enraged that I wanted to personally seek him out and slap him. (He is also a Master Bencher at my Inn of Court, which adds insult to injury.)

Phillip Pullman (yes, he of His Dark Materials fame) wrote a lovely piece in response to Straw that really made me sit up and take notice:

We are a better people than our government believes we are. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/feb/28/civil-liberties-philip-pullman)

And I thought to myself: f*ck this sh*t! I am not putting up with being treated like a number any more. And a whole bunch of people agreed with me. So we will be organising a demo in London in July (s'ok guys, it won't clash with Glasto) on a theme of " I am not a number!" - The Prisoner stylee.

I will spam a bit more when things are more in place, as it were. But I am sick and fed up of being treated like I was living in East Germany under the Stasi. Srsly. :mad: