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Topic History of: Ch4 DISTORTION of interviews! Police complain to Ofcom!
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The Hole |
We are way too apathetic, Anthony. You are so right.
JK, I've been listening to "It's good news week" today. My son loves it; we were singing together. (HE was also singing "Vile Pervert", much to my wife's embarrassment! Don't know how he heard that... he must have listened to the CD when we weren't around).
Anyway, we aren't allowed to protest, anymore. We need permission. No permission = arrest and DNA taken.
I'm going to have to get a new passport before all this biometric testing comes in. Then I'll be able to leave the country (for good) without my identity being stolen by the authorities.
Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but sometime I do fear for the future.
JK, write a new protest song for us, please!
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JK2006 |
I'm with you both but it's not a national thing.
I remember in the 60's (you're both too young) when we kids would march, protest and shout about anything and even wrote and recorded songs about "someone's dropped a bomb somewhere contaminating atmosphere and blackening the sky"...
Sadly those same kids are now in THEIR 60's and very few dare write lyrics like that or "police will inflate and the law says it's fine to accomodate tabloids with a solid headline"...
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Anthony |
The Thought Police won't come knocking, Hole. Not just yet anyway!
It's uncanny. I was formulating a post in my head which was almost word for word the one you have just made.
It isn't the steady systematic dismantling of our freedom which disturbs me so much as the apathy of the British public, lying back and allowing it to happen, seemingly unconcerned.
You are quite right. Say what you like about the French, there is no way they would allow it to happen to them. |
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The Hole |
Mart wrote:
A reasoned article I find quite easy to spot and rare, but with regards to the internet, do you not feel that the papers are themselves using their self styled(job discription of course for Devils Advocates)coluomnists, to create extra debates...
Thank you for your warm welcome...
Yes, a well-reasoned article is rare, and therefore easy to spot. Very rare, alas.
I do a bit of writing for a specialist magazine (I am one of the regular columnists, no less), and believe me, if I dare stray from editorial policy, or hint at stoking up debate, my work will not be accepted. Even when there is plenty of evidence that what I have written is the truth, populist belief has to take presidence, EVEN IF IT'S WRONG.
Sadly, too many people do believe what they see/hear/read. I confess to finding that disturbing, especially in these times when our freedom is being hacked away little by little, day by day.
We need another revolution in this country. We need mass civil disobedience so that politicians know that we will not tolerate the loss of our liberty. We have to be thoroughly un-English; dare I say it, we ought to be a little more French and stand up to the government.
(When we win, we can be English again... Can I say that "English", I mean, or must I say "British"?  I don't want the Though Police knocking on my door!)
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Mart |
Welcome, the Hole.
I must ad that I don`t believe that even many people at the papers believe in what they are writing.
A reasoned article I find quite easy to spot and rare, but with regards to the internet, do you not feel that the papers are themselves using their self styled(job discription of course for Devils Advocates)coluomnists, to create extra debates, which then carry on to the internet in the same way that the all day new channels are starting to rely on home-made video footage from mobile phones? |
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