Some have been tempted to see the review as a liberal adjustment, but read it closely and you'll find all the old fixations about the control of the British public and 'bottom-up citizen accountability', a gargoyle of a phrase that leers at you demanding proof of your identity, your innocence and your worth to the state. Instead, it is for the government to demonstrate its worth to us and we are all innocent until proven guilty by a normal court of law.
There is something Maoist in the review's exhortation. Think of the lunacy in China when Mao ordered the people into the fields to bang drums and tins so that the birds could never settle and therefore died of exhaustion and you have the tenor of this report. It is both self-congratulatory and demanding. As long as one bird is alive, none of us can rest. We must press on eradicating all crime and ensuring against the slightest possibility of deviancy.
Gentlemen, welcome to Hell.
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Memo to Tony: How's about you invert your iron-fisted domestic policy with your termite-boreholed foreign policy, and save me the trouble of hunting you down to brand a sickle-'n-hammer on your forehead.
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