Jacqui Smith: ID Cards Are Safe And Well, Ha! Ha! Ha!
In the wonderful and wacky world of surreal politics which is the happy hunting ground of New Labour, there is never a dead horse which cannot stand yet more flogging.
Jacqui Smith is trotting out the usual stuff and nonsense to what must be a very bored or very credulous audience at the Demos think tank, although there is precious little to indicate actual thought happening, just the normal dirge-like repitition of a tired and discredited mantra as New Labour treads water before its forthcoming electoral defeat.
Read the full text of the snake-oil saleswoman’s patter over here.
Impunity For State Sponsored Death Squads
As Homer Simpson said: “Mmm, doughnuts, is there nothing they cannot do!”
As Jacqui Smith might have said: “Mmm, the War on Terror and anti-terror legislation, is there no end to repressive legislation we cannot squeeze unnoticed onto the statute book under the guise of being tough in the War on Terror?”
Apparently not. Now, even coronors courts are to become the emasculated playthings of the Home Secretary, where proceedings may have to be conducted in secret and without a jury or access by anyone other than Jacqui Smith or her successors, not for reasons connected with national security, but purely on whim and diktat, despite the fact that this little piece of spiteful deviousness to curtail even more freedoms is stuck onto ant-terror legislation.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights said:
“On first inspection we find this an astonishing provision with the most serious implications for the UK’s ability to comply with the positive obligation in Article 2 (of the) ECHR [European Convention on Human Rights] to provide an adequate and effective investigation where an individual has been killed as a result of the use of force, particularly where the death is the result of the use of force by state agents.”
The legislation would mean that if anyone was killed by agents of the New British state or any other country or, in fact, under any circumstances in which the Home Secretary felt that she or he was entitled to interfere for no given reason, then nothing connected with a possibly unlawful killing would ever enter the public domain.
Andrew Dismore MP, the Labour chair of the Committee [Joint Committee on Human Rights], said: “We are seriously alarmed at the prospect that under these provisions, inquests into the deaths occurring in circumstances like that of Jean Charles de Menezes, or British servicemen killed by US forces in Iraq, could be held by a coroner appointed by the Secretary of State sitting without a jury.
“Inquests must be, and be seen to be, totally independent and in public to secure accountability, with involvement of the next of kin to protect their legitimate interests.
“When someone dies in distressing, high-profile circumstances their family need to see and feel that justice is being done, and where state authorities are involved there is a national interest in accountability as well.”
According to The Daily Mail:
Helen Shaw, co-director of Inquest, a pressure group which works with bereaved families, said: “The public will find it difficult to have confidence that these coroner-only inquests, with key evidence being suppressed, can investigate contentious deaths involving state agents independently.”
The group said the proposal could even affect the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian shot dead at a Tube station in 2005.
So, let’s say your son or daughter worked for the state as a civil servant on sensitive issues to do with something like growing vegetables. He or she is then run over and killed by a drunk driver who happens to be a senior policeman.
An inquest is then held in secret with only the coronor and the Home Secretary privy to the details of the case. It is announced later that your child was passing secrets to a foreign power and was killed while attempting to cross a busy road when drunk and high on drugs. The driver of the vehicle involved is receiving grief counselling and will be awarded massive compensation.
So, what are you going to do about it, eh, scum?
42 Days To Avoid Three 9/11s In One “New Britain” Day
You will not have heard of Tony McNulty, but he is, apparently, New Labour Security Minister.
No, surprisingly enough, that does not mean that he is the man who carries a big bunch of keys and walks round with a mop and bucket, like the man at the local leisure centre or shopping precinct.
That job is normally called a caretaker or janitor and Tony McNulty is actually a member of Her Majesty’s government in the elevated role of a minister.
The problem is that under New Labour, there is no tally, no necessary connection between occupying a position of power and having a brain which operates in the real world.
Tony McNulty, it would seem, has never stopped playing out the childhood fantasies of cops and robbers or cowboys and indians in his mind and he is now actually revealing those bizarre delusions to the world as if they bore any resemblance whatsoever to the realities of planet earth.
He has actually said this to The Mirror:
“As an extreme example, imagine two or three 9/11s. Imagine two 7/7s. Given the evidence we’ve got and the nature of plots so far disrupted, such scenarios aren’t fanciful.
“We hope never to utilise this power.
But given all we know, we need to take it for extreme circumstances.”
There are no reports that he was either drunk or on drugs when he made these statements. The fact that he is saying that ’such scenarios are not fanciful’ may indicate that he has been caught up in the feindish plot devised by Jacqui Smith’s imaginary friend, Chicken Little.
Chicken Little has confessed under enhanced interrogation techniques while a guest of the CIA in a ghost prison in Egypt that there is a plot to bring the sky falling down over New Britain.
Chicken Little is reported to have said: “We have an army of thousands of 200 feet tall chicken waiting in secret caves hidden in Santa’s grotto. When we join up with the wolf who knocked down the Three Little Pigs’ houses, we will be coming for you in New Britain”.
Tony McNulty is said to have responded to this with: “I believe every word of this. It is not chicken shit. Now please pass our new law for indefinite internment for everyone”.
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