Laura Sandys press releaseSouth Thanet`s Tory, Laura Sandys, Chairman of Open Democracy, has this weekend hit out at the advancing State control over our everyday lives.
Speaking out at a national conference held in London, the Ramsgate resident said that the State was now interfering in more and more aspects of our private lives and eroding our civil liberties. Governments want to regulate our behaviour, our freedom of speech and now planning to monitor our every move through the introduction of Identity cards.
At the Convention for Modern Liberty Laura said “Hard fought freedoms that had placed this country as a beacon of Liberty around the world have been eroded year on year by this Government. From the petty misdemeanours that are now considered crimes through to the legislation passed under the umbrella of “security”, we have seen this country’s civil liberties change dramatically. Once lost freedoms are hard to retrieve but we need politicians who stand up to the creeping intrusion of the state and the public galvanised into fighting for their freedoms.” I am extremely proud that Anthony Barnett from open Democracy, of which I am chairman, was instrumental in organising the Convention."
Delegates from NO2ID, Liberty, the Conservative Party, and the Liberal Democrats questioned vigorously the erosion of civil liberties – the database society, the erosion of free speech, the surveillance society, the undermining of the trial system of justice and not least the implication that the Government has lost its abhorrence of torture.
"I believe that we need to place freedoms at the heart of our democracy and society. Fear and distrust is the result of the erosion of civil liberties and we see this today on the streets of Thanet where people are frightened to build communities as they feel that big brother is around the corner.
Party politics need to be put aside if we are to defend the freedoms that so many have fought so dearly for," said Laura.
I have never voted Conservative yet should they guarantee there will be no issue of ID cards,or immediate abolition of them should our present tyranny impose them I will gladly put up with 5 years of them.
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Detention without trial
Politicization of selected judiciary
ID Card scheme
PCSOs
Home Office control not reisted by compliant Gestapo Police
Charlie boy waffling about becoming Defender of Faiths but no mention of his role as sole fount of justice guaranteeing Crown Authority to administer justice independent of government
Stephen Lawrence Inquiry conducted by a case compromised Kent Police. Jack Straw having to protect the Lawrence case Coroner from appeal scrutiny and protect Kent Police from an inquiry called for by their own police authority. The myth of institutionalized racism rests on these feeble foundations.
The unlawful multicultural experiment.
We are a Common Law, Common Rights, Common Sense, Common Courtesy, Common Decency country. Not a country ruled by PC dictat.
If QE2 had half the brain and education of QE1 we would not be in this sorry state and Cherie Blair and Ms Chakrabarti would be properly laughed at. Unfortunately QE2 has not been a monarch prepared to defend the constitution.