Peter Hitchens: Mussolini would have blushed at these laws, Mr Brown
Peter Hitchens
Saturday 17 November, 2007
Daily Mail
I've thought for years that I would end up in jail for some offence against political correctness.
I have almost got used to the idea of spending my declining years writing love-letters for skinhead thugs, eating slop with plastic cutlery and pushing the library trolley from cell to cell.
But now it seems the whole country is to be turned into a prison. For a start, I won't be able to leave Britain after June 2018, when my passport expires, because I refuse to go on the Identity Register and so will be denied a new passport after that date.
But the steel door will swing shut well before then if the revolting Gordon Brown gets his way, and if the British do not rediscover their courage. Spied on, interrogated, searched, forced to disrobe and grovel by officious oafs so that we can travel abroad, we meekly submit to our own enslavement.
Resist, and they can lock you up without charge for weeks, much as in Burma or the other countries we pretend to disapprove of.
Will you put up with it? You shouldn't. Mr Brown, even more than the grinning Blair creature, is the most effective supporter of terrorism in the free world.
He does exactly what Osama Bin Laden and the rest of them want him to do. If we really were fighting a war, we would be fighting it for our liberty.
Yet this 'war' involves abolishing the freedoms it has taken a thousand years of patient, heroic struggle to create and defend.
Our Prime Minister responds to the piffling outrages of these psychopaths (bad drivers kill and maim far more people every year than Islamist terrorists have ever murdered) by encouraging national panic.
He then uses that panic to bring in repressive laws that would have made Mussolini blush. How can I address this nauseating thing politely?
With their talk of 'not if, but when' and their Moonielike cult mantras of '9/11' and '7/7', these people give the strong impression that terrorist atrocities actively serve their political purposes.
Did they actually want to put armed troops on the streets of London on July 7, 2005, and then discover that the carnage wasn't quite extensive enough?
They have the powers, in the terrifying Civil Contingencies Act and various other laws our pathetic Parliament has passed, to turn this country into an iron-bound dictatorship. And I think they want to use them. ...
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