Comments | july_evening: Warning. Pending political rant.

july_evening

Warning. Pending political rant.

Nov 12, 2006 17:12

So we had an MEP (member of the European parliament) in school the other day, and I asked him if he thinks we're losing our civil rights to anti-terrorist legislation, which is something that worries me hugely at the moment because, well, we are. Anyway he actually gave me a more or less straight answer which for a politician is astounding (if you ( Read more... )

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proserpine75 November 13 2006, 03:00:53 UTC

Impressive rant. I agree with a lot of the things you said (obviously there are some that I'm not intimately acquainted with, as I'm American, but that was a given). And WORD on the terrorism =/= organisation bit. I am a little tired of people acting as if all the terrorists in the world have a phone tree and pass the word down so everyone's on the same page or something (not to mention that so far I haven't heard much on the Iraqi terrorism front... actually, what I have heard might not have started if we weren't there in the first place).

And the video clip is sheer genius. I loved Natalie Imbruglia so much when that song came out.