Comments on: UK support for civil liberties falls

By: susan 28

susan 28 — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:52:12 +0000

i don’t think freedoms can ever be revoked, per se; but they *can* be disrespected. how we react when that happens tells the tale. they can kill you or imprison you, but you’re still free as long as you don’t let them crush your will. government is the mirror-image (not a xerox copy) of the collective will: when will is strong, government is weak; when it is weak, government is strong. it begins at home.

and ah, i too love crumpets.. no, wait.. that’s *strumpets*.. but beware! no greater tyranny than that of the heart..

By: Rob Miller

Rob Miller — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:43:43 +0000

All of your freedoms can be revoked by the government too.

By: Kevin Fields

Kevin Fields — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:37:36 +0000

This isn’t surprising to me. Britians have never had the level of personal freedoms and liberties that Americans won and expected. They’ve always lived in a state of limited freedoms that is only granted by the government and have the potential to be revoked.

By: F

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:00:56 +0000

‘Perhaps itâ€™s our memory of World War II growing fainter.’

Agreed, unfortunitly war opens our eyes, keeps us on our toes.

By: Rob Miller

Rob Miller — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:02:34 +0000

The country still is a monarchy, FYI. However, the monarch serves a largely symbolic role and we’ve a long tradition of constitutional monarchy, dating back to the Magna Carta almost 800 years agoâ€”a document that had a profound influence on your Constitution and Bill of Rights. Your individual freedoms owe quite a lot to us and our legal history.

We’re not as backwards as you appear to make out, you know. At least our Parliament has the decency to even attempt the striking down of draconian anti-terrorist legislation, and our judiciary declare it or elements of it unconstitutionalâ€”something your government has singularly failed to do.

By: Javarod

Javarod — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:41:11 +0000

I shouldn’t be surprised at this, after all, how long was this country a monarchy? With that in mind, it shouldn’t surprise me that they’d trade freedom for security. Now in America, a country founded on individual rights, I’d be surprised (and am with every law Bush and Co. push through).

By: Q

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:02:53 +0000

Rob, now that was funny, thanks you made me laugh when I needed it.

By: Cafe Novo

Cafe Novo — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:52:42 +0000

UK Citizens Not Too Concerned About Civil Liberties…

An article at Homeland Stupidity looks at the overwhelming willingness of Britons to give up their civil liberties for greater security: A recent study of social attitudes in Britain has discovered that support for civil liberties is on the wane, with …

By: Rob Miller

Rob Miller — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:32:08 +0000

Crumpets are wonderfully liberating, I’ll have you know.

By: Q

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:12:06 +0000

time for them to cut back on the tea and crumpets, then wake up and smell the BS