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Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout
There is an increasing stamping on our civil liberties in the UK to the point where people are really beginning to speak up about it now. The Guardian is the main sponsor of an event called The Convention on Modern Liberty later this month, and have started up a whole new section on their "Comment is Free" blog pages.
I fear it is too little too late, though, |
This brings up your other thread about the french. If their government so much as looks at them cross eyed, lyons and paris are shut down. What is it going to take to get us out in the streets? Uniting as a whole seems to be the best solution for to the problem of individual liberties. Before we are broken down into isolated shadows afraid of acting out in even the most token expressions of protest.
I"m actually curious, what will it take?
On this side of the drink we have seasoned iraqi veteran batallions moving in and being stationed on the homeland, effectively shredding the writ of posse comitatus, which prohibits our own army actively operating on our own soil. Its one of those things like Sula marching onto Rome. Its just never even been imagined. But that's exactly why it will work for them.