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Freedom is not what happens when oppression collapses, oppression is what happens when freedom collapses.
Our freedom is being eroded at its foundations and when its supports are thin enough the slightest breeze will send it tumbling over so fast there'll be nothing left, and you won't even see it coming.
The latest (from BBC news): nightclub bouncers and private security personnel are to be allowed access to the Police National Computer. That's the database that stores, for example, the DNA records of school children from deprived areas on the grounds that they are likely to commit crimes in the future.
The more I think about the state of the systems that are supposed to protect our rights in this country, the more genuinely frightened I become.
Our freedom is being eroded at its foundations and when its supports are thin enough the slightest breeze will send it tumbling over so fast there'll be nothing left, and you won't even see it coming.
The latest (from BBC news): nightclub bouncers and private security personnel are to be allowed access to the Police National Computer. That's the database that stores, for example, the DNA records of school children from deprived areas on the grounds that they are likely to commit crimes in the future.
The more I think about the state of the systems that are supposed to protect our rights in this country, the more genuinely frightened I become.