Britain a police state? Only in your right wing ideological dreams. In what ways is the country a police state? I have yet to hear one iota of evidence for that.
Lets see they lack the freedom to be shot by some psycho who's pissed off at losing a job, as happens almost every 2 or 3 weeks in the US. I think that its happened what twice in over a decade in the UK. lets add in all the random shootings that happen in the US or the gang warfare in quite a few US cities. That does not happen in the UK. Then there's the freedom to die because you cannot afford health care. While I do not like the model of the National Health system the UK uses, proportionately more receive good health care than in the US and without being bankrupted by the process. Then there's the freedom not to have your views represented in the national legislature. The British parliamentary systems allows for multiple political parties, unlike the two party system (rather 1 party system with two faces) that you see in the US. Moreover the local government are even more flexible when it comes to political representation, with quite a few very different political parties and independent politicians serving various constituencies from the neighbourhood up through the regional legislatures in Glasgow, Wales or Northern Ireland. Don't like the Parliamentary system? Well there are also the feudal systems of the Channel Islands as well. Freedom to not to travel. The US forbids travel to Cuba. There are multiple flights from London's Gatwick or Heathrow airports to Havana. And the Virgin Atlantic flights are cheaper than flying to Washington Dulles. I could go on about this. But frankly the bs about American exceptionalism really does get tiresome. On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Britain has become a police state and we are in danger of following them, > but there is no reason any of this cannot be undone. The recent insane body > check/sexual assault tactics of the TSA at airport checkpoints in the US is > causing a huge backlash against the government. We'll see where it goes. > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Our societies, laws and what we are willing to accept has already eroded >> past the point of no return. >> >> http://bit.ly/9Iy7E8 >> >> I am surprised they did not try to pass the recent internet censorship bill >> as some security measure against terrorist websites. >> I guess the RIAA and the MPAA know that they don't even have to reach that >> far to get their muzzle on the net. >> >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:332021 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
