My letter to the Home Office
rovacs, 30 Aug 2006 20:20:09
I will be sending this to them.
Dear Mr.Ruddell,
I trust those who belong to Home Office are proud of their Department today.
I did not believe sanity and reason would prevail on this issue in the light of the kind of clique which currently governs this nation(undoubtedly the regime will meet its Waterloo at the next election,having alienated and disgusted so many by its arrogant authoritarianism,lying and ruthless behaviour).
What will it be putting folks into jail for merely possessing next? "Mein Kampf" possibly,the novels of Bret Easton Ellis,as they are "disgusting"-"have no place in our society?
Yes -the Home Office and this regime have made this country unique in the western world. It intends imprisoning people for looking at something! Not making money out of it,but merely for looking. And not material related to child porn-produced by the agency of a foul crime,but utter fiction where nobody is harmed and the whole thing is fantasy. This on the back of a single murder case-for which there is no evidence at all that such material had any responsibility-and in the teeth of the fact that even this may not have been a "murder" at all,as the convicted man is currently in the process of Appeal!.
Not a word in the "Response" document appears concerning human rights obligations,just as they were glibly brushed aside in the 2005 "Consultation Paper". The fact that the vast majority of respondees to the "Consultation" said these proposals were bad and quite unjustifiable is completely brushed aside (as the "Sunday Telegraph" rightly said this weekend,"Consultations" are a bad joke-only those who agree with the State's foregone conclusions are listened to. Here we see the truth of that clearly illustrated). If and when the first unfortunate goes to prison for the dreadful "crime" this Government is creating of "looking at something", doubtless Home Office breasts will swell with pride and Vernon Coaker will pop open the bubbly.
I am deeply ashamed for my country and its goosestep to Orwellian fascism under this regime-to the creation of such "thought crimes",unrelated to real criminality and harm,doubtless the harbinger of more control freak laws. Truly this is an evil day. A day when anyone with any care for the freedom of the individual from unnecessary,unjustified,logically and morally indefensible interference from the state in private affairs should shake their heads with despair. All of those who detest legislation based on such evil and unjust principles as this must now hope that our own Courts and the ECHR will see to it that such laws-quite contrary to this nation's human rights obligations towards its citizens-are declared "incompatable" and as such will assist in their being removed from the Statute book.
When such laws as this become reality, Britain ceases to be able to call itself a free nation. It joins the ranks of communist,fascist and religious despotisms-those that punish their citizens,not on the basis of committing harm,but for "thought" crime,for the crime of looking at what officialdom-or a political governing elite does not want them to look at.
That this regime fails to recognise the difference between those who make money from material-publishers etc(the OPA targets)and those who produce it and ordinary citizens who may privately see material and can't distinguish between non-consensual child porn and consensual fictional adult material,illustrates the totalitarian,illiberal, controlling mindset of the current governing class .
This was a land which once prided itself on being one of a free people. Who had no fear of their government unless they were engaged in harm to others and their society. We were once different to most other nations in this respect. With such legislation we join the worst of police states .Anthony Blair's regime has begun the British concentration camp for thought crime
Teddy, 31 Aug 2006 02:20:51
Consultation complete, process over, a civil servant's job done (ostensibly)...
I daresay Mr Ruddell isn't somebody worth lobbying any more?
T.
Author wrote:
> I will be sending this to them.
> Dear Mr.Ruddell,
> I trust those who belong to Home Office are proud of their Department today.
> I did not believe sanity and reason would prevail on this issue in the light of the kind of clique which currently governs this nation(undoubtedly the regime will meet its Waterloo at the next election,having alienated and disgusted so many by its arrogant authoritarianism,lying and ruthless behaviour).
> What will it be putting folks into jail for merely possessing next? "Mein Kampf" possibly,the novels of Bret Easton Ellis,as they are "disgusting"-"have no place in our society?
> Yes -the Home Office and this regime have made this country unique in the western world. It intends imprisoning people for looking at something! Not making money out of it,but merely for looking. And not material related to child porn-produced by the agency of a foul crime,but utter fiction where nobody is harmed and the whole thing is fantasy. This on the back of a single murder case-for which there is no evidence at all that such material had any responsibility-and in the teeth of the fact that even this may not have been a "murder" at all,as the convicted man is currently in the process of Appeal!.
> Not a word in the "Response" document appears concerning human rights obligations,just as they were glibly brushed aside in the 2005 "Consultation Paper". The fact that the vast majority of respondees to the "Consultation" said these proposals were bad and quite unjustifiable is completely brushed aside (as the "Sunday Telegraph" rightly said this weekend,"Consultations" are a bad joke-only those who agree with the State's foregone conclusions are listened to. Here we see the truth of that clearly illustrated). If and when the first unfortunate goes to prison for the dreadful "crime" this Government is creating of "looking at something", doubtless Home Office breasts will swell with pride and Vernon Coaker will pop open the bubbly.
> I am deeply ashamed for my country and its goosestep to Orwellian fascism under this regime-to the creation of such "thought crimes",unrelated to real criminality and harm,doubtless the harbinger of more control freak laws. Truly this is an evil day. A day when anyone with any care for the freedom of the individual from unnecessary,unjustified,logically and morally indefensible interference from the state in private affairs should shake their heads with despair. All of those who detest legislation based on such evil and unjust principles as this must now hope that our own Courts and the ECHR will see to it that such laws-quite contrary to this nation's human rights obligations towards its citizens-are declared "incompatable" and as such will assist in their being removed from the Statute book.
> When such laws as this become reality, Britain ceases to be able to call itself a free nation. It joins the ranks of communist,fascist and religious despotisms-those that punish their citizens,not on the basis of committing harm,but for "thought" crime,for the crime of looking at what officialdom-or a political governing elite does not want them to look at.
> That this regime fails to recognise the difference between those who make money from material-publishers etc(the OPA targets)and those who produce it and ordinary citizens who may privately see material and can't distinguish between non-consensual child porn and consensual fictional adult material,illustrates the totalitarian,illiberal, controlling mindset of the current governing class .
> This was a land which once prided itself on being one of a free people. Who had no fear of their government unless they were engaged in harm to others and their society. We were once different to most other nations in this respect. With such legislation we join the worst of police states .Anthony Blair's regime has begun the British concentration camp for thought crime
rovacs, 31 Aug 2006 08:44:27
Perhaps it just might make them feel a teeny bit guilty-like the "only following orders" brigade who collaborated with the Nazis because they obeyed the evil instructions of their masters. Doubt anyone left in Bliar's Home Office can have a conscience at all though.
Author wrote:
> Consultation complete, process over, a civil servant's job done (ostensibly)...
> I daresay Mr Ruddell isn't somebody worth lobbying any more?
> T.
> Author wrote:
> > I will be sending this to them.
> > Dear Mr.Ruddell,
> > I trust those who belong to Home Office are proud of their Department today.
> > I did not believe sanity and reason would prevail on this issue in the light of the kind of clique which currently governs this nation(undoubtedly the regime will meet its Waterloo at the next election,having alienated and disgusted so many by its arrogant authoritarianism,lying and ruthless behaviour).
> > What will it be putting folks into jail for merely possessing next? "Mein Kampf" possibly,the novels of Bret Easton Ellis,as they are "disgusting"-"have no place in our society?
> > Yes -the Home Office and this regime have made this country unique in the western world. It intends imprisoning people for looking at something! Not making money out of it,but merely for looking. And not material related to child porn-produced by the agency of a foul crime,but utter fiction where nobody is harmed and the whole thing is fantasy. This on the back of a single murder case-for which there is no evidence at all that such material had any responsibility-and in the teeth of the fact that even this may not have been a "murder" at all,as the convicted man is currently in the process of Appeal!.
> > Not a word in the "Response" document appears concerning human rights obligations,just as they were glibly brushed aside in the 2005 "Consultation Paper". The fact that the vast majority of respondees to the "Consultation" said these proposals were bad and quite unjustifiable is completely brushed aside (as the "Sunday Telegraph" rightly said this weekend,"Consultations" are a bad joke-only those who agree with the State's foregone conclusions are listened to. Here we see the truth of that clearly illustrated). If and when the first unfortunate goes to prison for the dreadful "crime" this Government is creating of "looking at something", doubtless Home Office breasts will swell with pride and Vernon Coaker will pop open the bubbly.
> > I am deeply ashamed for my country and its goosestep to Orwellian fascism under this regime-to the creation of such "thought crimes",unrelated to real criminality and harm,doubtless the harbinger of more control freak laws. Truly this is an evil day. A day when anyone with any care for the freedom of the individual from unnecessary,unjustified,logically and morally indefensible interference from the state in private affairs should shake their heads with despair. All of those who detest legislation based on such evil and unjust principles as this must now hope that our own Courts and the ECHR will see to it that such laws-quite contrary to this nation's human rights obligations towards its citizens-are declared "incompatable" and as such will assist in their being removed from the Statute book.
> > When such laws as this become reality, Britain ceases to be able to call itself a free nation. It joins the ranks of communist,fascist and religious despotisms-those that punish their citizens,not on the basis of committing harm,but for "thought" crime,for the crime of looking at what officialdom-or a political governing elite does not want them to look at.
> > That this regime fails to recognise the difference between those who make money from material-publishers etc(the OPA targets)and those who produce it and ordinary citizens who may privately see material and can't distinguish between non-consensual child porn and consensual fictional adult material,illustrates the totalitarian,illiberal, controlling mindset of the current governing class .
> > This was a land which once prided itself on being one of a free people. Who had no fear of their government unless they were engaged in harm to others and their society. We were once different to most other nations in this respect. With such legislation we join the worst of police states .Anthony Blair's regime has begun the British concentration camp for thought crime