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Whenever you hear about a violation of privacy by the US government, you can guarantee that GCHQ laughs at how much easier it is for them. We have no constituti
by ascorbic 11y ago
Whenever you hear about a violation of privacy by the US government, you can guarantee that GCHQ laughs at how much easier it is for them. We have no constitution to tie their hands, and the Human Rights Act is a hopelessly weak substitute. The public doesn't complain, because the government and media have managed to convince them that human rights are something only used by terrorists and paedophiles. There's no separation of legislative and executive branches either, and the Human Rights Act has no special status and can be repealed like any other act of Parliament. The one saving grace is that our Supreme Court is not political, so doesn't rule on partisan lines.
- libeclipse 11y agoPreach. Most people are sheep, and worse than that, they are naive. The biggest delusion they have is that we as citizens actually have a say in the running of our country.
- ascorbic 11y agoWe do have a say inasmuch as we can vote them out every five years. This doesn't help if the rest of our fellow voters are wrong. Human Rights are for terrorists, immigrants are paedophile terrorists and benefit scroungers who are stealing our jobs, the EU lets terrorist immigrant scrounging paedophiles into the country, and so on.
- SixSigma 11y ago> we can vote them out every five years you mean "we can vote another similar group in" And GHQ will be the same people
- libeclipse 11y agoYour vote has negligible influence in a pointless decision to choose between two equally bad parties.