Friday | 29 August 2008 | 12:31 AM
An Onion News Special Report
Portrayal Of Obama As Elitist Hailed As Step Forward For African Americans
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Wednesday | 20 August 2008 | 12:58 AM
Sectioned
This video was taken by a guy who was randomly stopped by the police under Section 44 of the terrorism act. The police officer openly admits he has no reason to suspect him of terrorism or any other crime.
This is madness. We can't stop terrorists by stopping every twentieth person and hoping they are carrying something that incriminates them. What happened to running investigations, identifying suspects and gathering evidence?
Policework is now just licensed harrassment of the law-abiding. In this instance, you either comply and submit to a humiliating public search of your person and possessions, or you get arrested and end up with your DNA on the national database.
Bah.
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Tags: Brown, Labour, liberties, privacy, rights, terrorism, UK
Sunday | 27 July 2008 | 04:46 PM
I stand corrected
Oops.
Seems the C.S. Lewis estate were right, and I was wrong. The guy was cyber-squatting, and rather despicably using his 11-year old son as a cover.
I'm sorry I ever took his side, and have removed the post criticising the C.S. Lewis estate.
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Tuesday | 22 July 2008 | 02:46 PM
The Midwich Tabby
Felines and flash photography are a recipe for evil.
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Tags: cats, Sussex
Tuesday | 17 June 2008 | 09:39 PM
David Davis for Freedom
David Davis (and some other people too) for Freedom
It will surprise none of you to know that I was one of the (reported) thousands of people who emailed David Davis to offer their support after his shock resignation last week.
It's not that I feel it was the greatest tactical decision he could have made (only time will tell on that one) - it's more that I feel the teeniest tiniest fraction of responsibility. I wrote to him last November, urging him to take a firm stand against Labour's increasingly authoritarian policies. Now that he has (and oh my hasn't he), it would be somewhat churlish to abandon him.
And so I've sworn fealty to the cause and may well find myself pounding the streets of Haltemprice & Howden come the beginning of July. Although I suspect he'll settle for a donation.
His campaign has a web site at www.daviddavisforfreedom.com.
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Tags: civil+liberties, Davis, democracy, ID+cards, IDCards, liberties, politics, protest, UK
Thursday | 12 June 2008 | 09:34 PM
Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Braun?
I'm tired.
I have been up in London for most of this week, interviewing various people for a report on the way civil liberties in the UK are being restricted.
So I watched the 42-day detention vote in Parliament yesterday with even more interest than usual. I followed the debate from PMQs all the way through to the final, despicable result and it was all I could do not to get blind drunk afterwards to drown my sorrows.
The debate was, though it might sound ridiculous, inspirational. It restored my faith in MPs, and it restored my faith in Parliament. They demolished the bill. Completely tore it to shreds. No-one watching it could have failed to see and be deeply worried by the fundamental flaws in the principle and the practice of the government's proposals.
That the government won was bad enough. The manner of their 'victory' was truly, gut-twistingly awful. Diane Abbott was spot on when she called it a 'grubby bazaar'. Gordon Brown has bent over backwards to trade fundamental civil liberties for his own personal ambition, and he didn't even manage to achieve an effective anti-terror measure along the way. I don't think there's any way he will ever escape that. It may take a while, but this is the end of him, and the end of New Labour.
It can't come too soon.
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Monday | 7 April 2008 | 09:08 PM
Daisy
Grace is still missing, and our best guess is that she soldiered off on some adventure of her own devising. Romance and swashbuckle, I like to think. Maybe she'll deign to come back and tell us about it; we live in hope.
However, her absence has been made a little more bearable by the arrival of Daisy.
When they heard about Grace, the family from whom we originally got her (and Boyd) very kindly offered to let us take Daisy, their sister who had not yet been homed. So here she is, bless her cotton socks.
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