A re-post from Jan 30th 2007, its more relevant now than it was then....

Just what the hell is happening to my country. 

 

I am watching story after story unfold of lies, corruption, incompetence and cover up.
 

I am watching a Prime Minister, Tony Blair being investigated for fraud, for deceit, for perverting the course of justice. On TV I hear him telling lies, in the news I read more stories. Tales of fund raising secret from the Labour Party treasurer, tales of Peerages being supplied as reward, tales of secret email systems and accounts, private Pipex broadband into No10 separate from the government system. 

I am seeing Peers of the Realm being arrested, interviewed under caution for perverting the course of justice.

I am seeing 3 of the Prime Ministers staff being arrested and interviewed in the same way for the same things.

I am seeing The Chancellor, Gordon Brown who is just waiting for the PM to fall from grace, so he can take over, being investigated by the Charities Commission for his association with the Smith Institute.  

He is also being investigated by multitudes of bloggers who are beginning to put their heads together and put the picture in place, and the picture is beginning to show signs of fraud, of corruption and more deceit, the results of which will be no doubt handed to the proper authorities in time.

The Chancellor and the Treasury have refused to answer FOI requests regarding this subject and have not yet answered written questions in the House made to them in January. 

I am seeing the Charities Commission investigating the Smith Institute, a secretive and shady organisation that claims to be a charity, yet appears to be setting government policy, which is just not on, where members of its board of trustees also own the Limited Company SI Events that organises its meetings with and in No.11, over 200 times to date, that also shares the same office and has the same staff.  The Offices (and most of the staff) are leased to the Smith Institute and SI Events by The New Statesman, owned by Geoffrey Robinson, the ex paymaster general who lent all that money to Mandleson, and put his own fortune into ‘trusts’ in Jersey to avoid tax.

Companies House tells us that SI Events ltd last filed accounts on 31/03/2006, are ‘small’, but highlighted documents are not yet ready for inspection. Do I smell tax fiddles as well here? You can learn more here and here.  Even the Smith Institute web site is registered to the New Stateman. 

There seems to be more dirt, sleaze, corruption, lies and illegality at No11 than in the Prime Ministers office, and this guy wants Tony Blair’s job?

I am seeing the European Minister Geoff Hoon telling the cross-party European Scrutiny Committee that he votes for European legislation even though it might not be legal. 

I am seeing a Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell who during an investigation of her Husband by Italian authorities into Fraud allegations claimed that she managed to sign a mortgage form for hundreds of thousands of pounds and casually "forgot" about it.

I am seeing the Ministry of Defence spend £2.3 billion to refurbish its Whitehall headquarters with marble, teak and maple, whilst our fighting men are short of equipment and dying because of it, and provided with housing which is in a “squalid” and “shaming” condition. 

I am seeing the Inland Revenue [Now Revenue and Customs] use a 'sale and leaseback' arrangement with a tax haven company to 'avoid' tax on their OWN property estate.

I am seeing big business being rewarded over and over again, with bigger and newer contracts no matter how many times they fail to deliver. 

I am seeing the DWP loosing money hand over fist £167 million per year, because the systems that big business put in for them doesn’t work.  That’s our money.

I am seeing a Home Secretary John Reid who doesn’t appear to be able to organise a piss up in a brewery. 

I am seeing over 26000 new laws that take away my rights.

I am seeing more secretive government, with new laws being passed to stop me seeing what they do, yet with this level of corruption and lies, we need to see more of what they do. 

Government is spending our money quicker than a pissing competition.  This nation is bust, broke, and still they tell the lies, hide the facts, smile and find something new to put taxes on.

 

Corruption, Lies, Fraud - Just what the hell is going on. 

 

 

The Government now has over 4 million camera’s watching us. 

The Government listen to your phone calls.

The Government read your emails.

The Government read your text messages.


They know where you go, who you see, what you say.

They know what you drive, where you drive, when you drive.

They know where you shop, what you buy, and how often.

They know what you spend, how you pay for it, where you spend it.

They know who you bank with, how much you have, and where you got it.
 

And they put it all on databases, and they want to share it with everyone, and in some cases just sell it.

And they want to put it on an ID card so its all in one place. 

And all the big companies that are in bed with government will know where you shop, how much you earn, and what you drive. Just wait for the sales junk to arrive.

They want to take your medical records and put that on a database as well, but because its going to be such a big wide open system, the big companies will soon know that as well. 

The clerk in the car hire firm will soon know all about your boils and gout, and how many heart attacks you have had, and you’ll have to pay more for the services and insurance you get, after you’ve given them your fingerprints.

And they pass yet more laws to stop us seeing what they are doing.

 

And I think What the Hell is going on. 

 

The Government have given themselves powers, lots of powers.

 

Power to arrest you for doing nothing.

Power to detain you for doing nothing for 28 days.

Power to enter and search your home after arrest for doing nothing.

Power to fingerprint you after arrest and keep them for 100 years for doing nothing.

Power to take your DNA after arrest and keep it for 100 years for doing nothing.

Power to give you an ASBO after arrest for doing nothing.

Power to make illegal things you to do that the rest of us can do legally, for doing nothing.

Power to make you live in a hostel away from your family for doing nothing.

Power to stop you travelling for doing nothing.

Power to put you behind bars for 5 years if you don’t do what the ASBO says for doing nothing.

Power to detain you indefinitely and force you to take medication for doing nothing except having a treatable mental condition.
 

Power to enter your office.

Power to search and seize.

Power to bug your phone.

Power to bug your house.

Power to bug your office.

And its not just policemen that can do that.  Its HMRC, the new political police SOCA, Weights and Measures, The BAA. The FSA, NHS, OfCom and Social Services.

 

Some people must wonder if my thought processes are amongst the conspiracy theorists, preaching doom and gloom. Well its all available in the public domain, all of the Acts of Parliament which allow them to do this stuff can be read here, and if I hadn’t taken the time to look it up I would agree with you.

But with every bit of new technology that they want to use on us, every new law which makes it easier for them to spy, probe, gather information and put us away, I am tending to start to think that there is something in some of these theories.

 

How about this stuff below,

 

As reported in The Sun (also known as the mouthpiece of No10).
 

A January 17 memo seen by The Sun discusses the cameras, which can see through clothes.

It says “detection of weapons and explosives will become easier” and says cameras could be deployed in street furniture.

Putting X-ray cameras in lamp-posts !!. (right, so hundreds of bored ex traffic wardens are going to be given the opportunity to watch kids walking about naked)

Beside cameras, officials are also considering systems known as millimetre wave imaging and THz imaging and spectroscopy.  

Technology could also be used to halt theft, with fingerprint scanners fitted to many items.

(can see that working in the supermarket, baked beans 45p, oops the scanner says your wanted for fraud, hang on just calling the cops).

Elsewhere, tagged offenders could be sent electronic pulses to remind them not to re-offend. (I suppose explosive charges in necklaces will be next). 

Cops would also get the power to build yet another database of everyone in the land. Three-dimensional CCTV pictures would be coupled with records of people’s mobile phones and even their travel cards to get details of their movements and habits.

Facial recognition systems to help track individuals’ movements are also being considered. 

 

And this in the Telegraph

Tony Blair's strategy unit says the Government should consider drastic crime-curbing remedies, such as rationing the amount of alcohol people can buy, a ban on alcohol advertising, ID chip implants, the use of bounty hunters and "chemical castration" for sex offenders. The 60-page report, Policy Review: Crime, Justice and Cohesion, written last month, also makes controversial observations about social cohesion. (another nail in the coffin of innocent before proven guilty, and you’ve done your time when you get out).

 Note: ID chip implants for prisoners announced by Jack Straw Jan 08.  Stalin would have been so proud.


With every new story, with every new crazy idea, which they are seriously considering otherwise there would not be government policy documents like this, with every new use that technology could possibly be put to in order to control us, the people, the words of the so called conspiracy theorists are becoming ever more real. 

People have labelled them nutters, living in a fantasy world, a marble short of a game.

Well, just look at all the above, see what they have done, see some of what they are planning and you tell me who’s mad.

 

Who are they?  Read yesterdays blog to get some idea about who they are.

Maybe George Orwell did get it right after all.




The NuLab government of Gordon Brown has ensured that we in the UK are now part of that same Authoritarian world.

If you are sick of being spied on by your own government, being told what to do, what to eat and drink, being told what you can and cannot say or think, having your personal data forcibly collected then databased, lost, corrupted and made worthless by the government, the Libertarian option is open to each and every one of you.

Had enough? I know I have.

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