SteelSnowflake | March 16th, 2008

From the Cradle to the Grave

[ 17:49:01, Sunday, March 16 2008 ]

Author: Elihu Ihms 23 Lines, 4 Comments
Category: history,news,politics
Description: A brief synopsis of the move towards fascism from its one time greatest foe.
Last edited: 17:54:07, 03/16/08

There was once a time when fascism's greatest foe was Great Britain. Now, sixty years after its triumph against Hitler's "Third Reich", the UK has become a case study in nannystatism and paranoia. Today, the UK Observer ran yet the latest [installment] in this saddening slide into oppression, the argument that young children should have their DNA added to the UK's DNA database:

If we have a primary means of identifying people before they offend, then in the long-term the benefits of targeting younger people are extremely large...You could argue the younger the better. Criminologists say some people will grow out of crime; others won't. We have to find who are possibly going to be the biggest threat to society.

These are not the words of some powerless local politician, these words come straight from Gary Pugh, director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard and the new DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers.

The dystopia is now.

To further drive home my point, take a brief look at stories from the past year that I've tagged with the hallmarks of this progression::

[http://del.icio.us/benzene/nannystate]
[http://del.icio.us/benzene/fascism]
[http://del.icio.us/benzene/paranoia]

and finally,
[http://del.icio.us/benzene/unconstitutional]

Can you give me one good reason why this will not happen here, given the blase attitude of this administration about American's constitutional rights?

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Pessimism and bravery don't have to be mutually exclusive! (Enter -- Puddleglum). This marshwiggle gives me hope.	Hannah `00:19:28, 03/31/08` (5)
Well, this is rather disheartening. Guns have already been banned in many cities across the US (as a side note - don't move to these cities, crime skyrockets in "safe" places like that), and state rights are hardly as powerful as they might have been before the civil war (not that I'd ever protest the justification of that war in terms of human rights and all, but still, the repercussions in governmental control are chilling). As for citizens willing to still dump tea - very true! I pray I'll be one of them. But based on what I see around me, there won't be many. Then again... I could very well be badgered into fearing for my life (like how it feels impossible that I could speak up at work without being instantly labelled!). Abject pessimism, I suspect, is rarely paired with stalwart bravery. :D	Iaian7 `20:11:26, 03/21/08` (5)
The supreme court is actually hearing arguments today whether or not the second amendment is a personal right, or a collective one. Currently, it looks like the justices will come down supporting the second amendment as a personal right (aren't all the other ones personal anyway?). What's sad is that it looks like it could be close. It's obvious what the founders meant when they said people had a right to "keep and bear arms". Sigh.	Elihu `17:56:17, 03/18/08` (5)
i read this today too...and threw up a little in my mouth. i like how they try to justify it as fair by testing all the kids, instead of the one's they already think are "guilty" or may be guilty in the future. friggen' thought police.... one good reason it won't happen here: GUNS! and individual state rights. oh, sorry. that's two. and people like me willing the government's dump tea in the river. OK. three now. i'll stop.	Carl Orwell `18:57:35, 03/17/08` (5)

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