The advance of the Police State

Gordon Brown: Liar

This week saw a huge step towards the establishment of a totalitarian police state with the government's threat to invoke anti-terrorism laws to prevent lorry drivers protesting against the unbearably high tax burden on the industry and the subsequent government campaign of lies, misinformation and propoganda.

The anti-terrorism laws were designed to forced onto us against the will of the majority of the electorate on the premise that the police needed powers to deal with terrorists in the event of an attack on the country. The government has no right to attempt to use this same legislation to prevent legitimate and lawful protest - one of our basic legal rights in the UK and a fundamental feature of a democracy.

If the lorry drivers had indeed blocked an oil refinery or any other road for that matter, the police have sufficient powers to move them, detain them and prosecute them without invoking any anti-terrorism laws. The only reason this was threatened was to scare people out of protesting and to allow the authorities to prevent any legal and legitimate protest - something that isn't allowed under any existing law.

While all this is happening we have statements from the lying crooks in power such as the little gem that Gordon Brown came out with saying that the increasing price of fuel is down to OPEC limiting supply and that reducing the fuel duty won't do anything to bring the price of fuel down. First the lie - the high price of fuel is down to the unfair level of tax on it with the price of oil having a minimal effect on the price with it accounting for such a small percentage of the total cost. Second the propoganda - blaming OPEC which is mostly Arab/Muslim countries for the cost of fuel is a classic move, especially with what's been going on recently. Third the misleading/misinformation - cutting fuel duty would have a much greater effect on the price of fuel than reducing the cost of the oil it's made from because tax is such a high precentage of the total cost.

In 2000 the government lied, misinformed and unleashed a propoganda campaign onto the people of this country. In 2005 they've done it again.