–Photoshop was never my strong suit, but the hat gives him a certain charm
“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.”
–David Cameron, 2015
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I don’t think anything else needs to be said does it?
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But then again, 11,334,576 UK citizens did vote for this, didn’t they?
World, David Cameron’s intention seems dangerously clear, obeying the law should not be enough to protect UK citizens from being tried in secret courts, imprisoned, or perhaps even hung at the behest of Her Majesty’s Government, should they find your (non criminal) opinions in contrast to their own.
I don’t know about you, but I struggle to think of a better example of post WWII twisted extremism than that. In what messed up extreme logic does dismantling our Human Rights and denying our freedom justify protection from terrorists who (guess what) want to deny our human rights and take away our freedom?
I’ll leave you with some modern Orwellian Torisms to ponder on.
“I want to see new civil powers to target extremists who stay just within the law”
— Theresa May, 2014
“Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions. Were I ever alone in the dock I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals… I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.”
–Michael Gove, 1998
“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.”
–David Cameron, 2015
“The twisted narrative of extremism cannot be ignored or wished away”
— Theresa May, 2015
…Never were truer words spoken Theresa.