Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:45:36 +0000> From: macavity@well.com> To: eugen@leitl.org> Subject: Re: UK: papers please> CC: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net> 2008/12/8 Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>:> > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/3543266/Police-and-immig... ation-given-powers-to-demand-to-see-identification.html> >> > <snip>> >> > Shadow Immigration Minister, Damian Green, added "This scheme will do nothing> to improve our security, may make it worse, and will certainly land the> > tax-payer with a multi-million pound bill.> >> > "Labour should be concentrating their efforts on things that will actually> > improve our security, like a dedicated UK Border police force, instead of> > trying to introduce ID cards through the back door.> >> > "Now more than ever the issue of our basic freedoms is very important."> >> > Note the complete lack of a commitment by his party, the Conservatives> - traditionally more right-wing
In the US and elsewhere, any local "right wing" consistently comes up zero when it comes to truly getting the whole limit-the-state's-power thing. For them, limiting the power of the state seems to only matter when government gets in the way of big business, and that's it. The left does only slightly better, but almost by accident. -TD than the governing Labour party - to> do anything different.> > 'Whoever you vote for, the government wins', etc.> > W _________________________________________________________________ Send e-mail anywhere. No map, no compass. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_anywher... _122008