| Rant |
[Apr. 24th, 2006|06:30 pm] |
Apparently there is a "pernicious and even dangerous poison" spreading through the UK. That's right - Journalists.
"Some commentators routinely use language like 'police state', 'fascist', 'hijacking our democracy', 'creeping authoritarianism', 'destruction of the rule of law' (when talking about the UK and US since the anti-Terror measures were brought in)" says Charles Clarke, the UK Home Secretary.
Yeah, asshole, and it's your fucking fault. The House of Lords said all that too, when they threw your legislation out the window for being a massive invasion of civil liberties. If you're trying to tell us everything would be alright if the journalists would just let you push through your draconian, 'changing-800-years-of-UK-law' bollocks Terror Bills, you can fuck right off.
And when you come back, you can fuck off again.
Going on to whinge about the Independent and Guardian columnists who called you on your authoritarian bollocks would be great if your responses weren't utterly false.
To go into one example, the t-shirt slogan case was about the person arrested for wearing an anti-blair shirt to a protest outside the Labour conference in Brighton. The official police report said he'd been cautioned for (and I quote) "carrying plackard + T-shirt with anti-Blair info". (sic). That was under section 44 of the 2000 Terrorism Act - it made a few papers, Simon Carr wasn't making it up in The Independent. Your response that "There is no such provision in any Prevention of Terrorism Act" only shows how vague and easily abused your wide-ranging legislation has been, you unbelievable asshat.
Dear Charles Clarke,
Please shut the fuck up and spend your time writing better laws instead.
Dear Journalists,
Please ignore this loser and keep telling it like it is.
Thank you,
Steve. |
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Yeah, this. All of this, these guys are so buried in their own bullshit they don't know what truth smells like anymore.
Yes, yes he does. Great headline :)
Ahh yes god forbid journalists should actually do their jobs...
Not much that I can really comment on that... I wholeheartedly echo what Tyrell said... In fact, I feel a HELL YEAH coming on...
HELLLL YEAHHHHH
Jaysus, if I lived in the UK I'd be seriously fucking worried - it's like a slippery slope to a Bushist State. Of course we're all grand in our glorious green democracy that is pure and corruption-free over here
The power of google. As I shut down, I thought I'd check the referrals. Google: charles clarke arsehole. Get's my post quoting you. Someone actually googled for that. Same person also googled for Prescottisms. I like watching search hits, it just shows how warped some people are... | |
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