Yesterday, I went to see Ipswich Town
"my" team play, for the first time this season.

At half time, when we were in the bar area, there was a copper marked "Police Intelligence" taking photos. Actually, some people were mugging for the cameras, and it almost seemed jolly, but for the love of God, why was he in there ? There's no violence at Town matches, afterwards we all walked out together, home and away fans, quite happily.
But we can't do anything now without being monitored. We have more CCTV cameras than anywhere in the world.
What is being preserved here ? Our liberty ?
No. What is being preserved is our suppression.
I never voted NuLabour knowing full well that Bliar was no socialist. But what has been done in the last 10 years to erode our freedoms as listed in this great posting is beyond anything I could have dreamt of.
And it's only going to get worse. I can't emigrate, I have too many friends and family here. And I'm British / English, this is my home and I damned if I should have to leave it.
But the paranoia, the fear, the observation; Orwell has been proved right, and I can only see with an economic downturn things getting much worse.
I hates it, I hates it, I hates it. Fear and suspicion and the eroding of communities and the triumph of ignorance.
And it's my birthday today ! This is hardly cheering me up.

Once again, great post. Can't all us B3tans form a community somewhere ?
( I_Was_Mordred, Mon 5 May 2008, 10:56, Reply)