It is time to resist... (Or is it already too late?)

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We have a choice: either we can believe that the British state is peculiarly immune to tyrannical instincts that are beginning to show in this government or we can now start to oppose what is going on. We have a very short time to save our society from this nightmare, as has been made clear by Sir Ken Macdonald, the former DPP, Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, and the House of Lord constitutional committee.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to resist for we cannot rely, as Omand asks us, on the "essential reasonableness of the UK police, security and intelligence agency activity". Full story...

See also:

1. Big Brother drones that track the Taliban may soon hover over your home...
2. Britain: Police given new powers to hack into personal computers...
3. The Obsolete Man. Welcome to the Twilight Zone, folks...
4. "The Unknown Citizen " by W.H. Auden...
5. We're the Government: and you're not! Get it?