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Η εργασία κλέβει τις αστικές ελευθερίες μας
Σάββατο, 7η Ιουνίου 2008
Μερικές ημέρες αργότερα, όταν παρέδωσε ο Robin Cook δικούς του ομιλία περιγράφοντας τη δέσμευση της νέας διοίκησης για μια ηθική εξωτερική πολιτική, χαλάρωσα, ανάπνευσα έναν στεναγμό της ανακούφισης, και πρόσεξα με τη χαρά καθώς η παλαιά φρουρά υποχώρησε, γλείφοντας τις πληγές τους μετά από μια τέτοια λεπτομερής και άξια. Σε εκείνη την ομιλία, Cook είπαν:
Έτσι πόσο ακριβώς πήραμε από αυτόν, σε αυτό το Orwellian Newspeak από Gordon Brown αυτή η εβδομάδα:
Ή για να παραφράσει ελαφρώς: «Προκειμένου να συντηρηθούν οι αστικές ελευθερίες, πρέπει να θυσιάσουμε τις αστικές ελευθερίες.» Στις συνεργασίες με ένα εξίσου δυσάρεστο αμερικανικό καθεστώς, η νέα κυβέρνηση εργασίας έχει και επιτηρημένος μια διάβρωση στις προσωπικές ελευθερίες και τις ελευθερίες τις οποίες και η Θάτσερ και Reagan, ακόμη και στις σκοτεινότερες ημέρες του κανόνα τους, θα μπορούσαν μόνο να έχουν ονειρευτεί. Not content with removing all ethics from our foreign policy, they are doing their damnedest to make sure that before we know it, civil liberties and human rights at home will soon be nothing more than a distant memory. ID cards, “Sus” laws, 42-days detention, extraordinary rendition, waterboarding, torture, juryless trials, secret prison ships, a hidden network of “black sites” where suspects are interrogated and who-knows-what-else away from prying eyes and ears: these are all the stuff of fiction, of spy novels and sci-fi. They’re the stuff of nightmares, the grimmest of fairy tales brought to life, with our government firmly in the role of bogeyman. When the left marched in the 1980s against Pinochet, and when we stood in solidarity with the mothers and sisters of the disappeared, little did we know that our government would one day be capable of the same; that 20 years down the line the British and the Americans would be snatching people away in the dead of night, surveilling their own citizens around the clock, and intercepting both their phone calls and their correspondence. Little did we know that the excesses of which we accused the old Soviet regime would soon be employed against us. When the iron curtain fell we looked on in fascination as the Stasi and the KGB opened up their files to public scrutiny, stunned that states would keep such meticulous records on their own people. We’re now trying to work out how big a vault will be needed when the government gets its way and starts logging our every key stroke, collecting details about every second we spend on the internet. We’re left wondering how many years it will be before these secret records are opened up for scrutiny, if indeed they ever are. Perhaps the so-called war on terror will never end, and we’ve finally arrived at Orwell’s perpetual war. For 18 long years I campaigned to help get a Labour government back into power, but I never signed up for any of this; the loss of our civil liberties was never a part of the game plan. And if Brown’s now wondering why his ratings are so low, why his party’s nearly bankrupt and his defeat at the next election is all but assured, then he needs to think carefully about those of us who have been sold so short by 11 years of New Labour mismanagement. He needs to think about those who helped this government into power, and who can now only look on in horror as slowly but surely, brick by brick, they dismantle everything we hold precious. Liam Byrne can wax lyrical about Britishness all he likes; his government lost sight of what that means many years ago. Whether it happens on St George’s Day or on the August bank holiday, when they finally start enforcing their mass celebrations and dictating to the populace how best to commemorate our illusory freedom, I’ll be staying inside my house with my doors and windows firmly locked and I’d advise everyone else to do the same. As Alan Paton said: See More:UK News Have Your Say: Labour is stealing our civil liberties Please note, only selected comments will be published. Or discuss this report in our new forums This entry was posted on Saturday, June 7th, 2008 at 1:09 am and is filed under Surveillance, Civil Liberties & Human Rights News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. |
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