Coup in Britain: State Steals Country from Citizens

It is nothing more than a complete reversal of the relationship between state and people. Once completed, the citizen will be at the mercy of the state, a situation that I believe is being deliberately engineered by a core group led by the Prime Minister.

Manipulation

They have cleverly used the world situation to further their aims. For many years we endured, and coped with, IRA terrorism. However, when the audacious and destructive set of acts of 11 September 2001 was perpetrated in the USA, which had never had to face anything of the sort before (not even including the Oklahoma outrage), they reacted in cavalier fashion. The personality and capabilities of the incumbent President were undoubtedly a factor in deciding to raise a posse and gallop off after the villains. Wrong villains, but no matter. And because we accepted the lies fed to us by our Prime Minister, we became embroiled in their expensive ‘war against terror.’

I do not for one second belittle the threat that we face from dissolute people bent on harming us but, as Michael Moore said, you can’t make war on a noun. Terrorists are people – like us, in that they breathe and sleep and perform necessary bodily functions. They have families too, very often. You do not persuade people to change their views by bombing them, shooting them, supporting aggression against them, or even by getting rid of their dictators for them, if that means killing many more of the population. You have to talk to them, find out why they feel as they do, what we could do to resolve the situation. This may not work and the use of force might be necessary - but as the very last resort, not the first.

Repressive Legislation

The upshot of allying ourselves with America in this mistaken adventure has been that we are tarred with the same brush and have become targets. Resistance movements, not having armies to command, use dirty tactics. We were very good at it ourselves, helping the French, Yugoslav, Norwegian and Greek Resistance movements in World War II with all sorts of underhand schemes and devices against the occupying Nazi forces. They, of course, were on our side and therefore not terrorists or militants but resistance, fighters for freedom. If I were a Palestinian, say, or an Afghan, might I not think that I was resisting occupation by carrying out acts that harmed my perceived enemies? Personally I hold no justification for acts that kill indiscriminately, believing them to be counter-productive in every way, but who am I to judge when I am not under threat from anyone – except in having my freedom removed and my life controlled by people that were elected to govern me.

The point I am making is that we should not be astonished when perpetrators of atrocities, such as the July London bombings, occasionally get through, as did the IRA on several occasions. However, this does not make repressive legislation against the population at large desirable and is certainly not acceptable. We already have all the resources necessary to counter would-be bombers. The tactic of scaring us all silly has been used simply in order to justify more and more repressive and controlling legislation. I wish I could believe that introducing such measures was caused by panic among incompetent and foolish politicians. Unfortunately I don’t. I believe they are doing it coldly, calculatingly and deliberately as part of their planned power-grab to take over the UK completely. Fantasy? Read on.

Identity Card Control

Consider a few things. A deranged man runs amok and murders schoolchildren and teachers in the appalling Dunblane tragedy. What happens? Hand-guns are banned. Banned, that is, for those who owned them legally. Yet gun-crime has increased since that terrible day, using illegal weapons of course. And the same thing is happening concerning knives. Even carrying a pen-knife is regarded with suspicion these days. More sinister for Scots perhaps, has been the removal of our dedicated army HQ for Scotland and the amalgamation of our regiments, all with proud histories, into the mish-mash Royal Regiment of Scotland – ‘forward as one’! – and their frequent posting to far-away places. All in the name of efficiency and modernisation of course. Sinister? It would be, if the reason was to ensure there could never be a military coup, as might possibly have happened in Harold Wilson’s time.

What most certainly is sinister is the Identity Card system, proposed by Blunkett, so ably defended by Clarke and, of course, totally supported by the Prime Minister. The same Prime Minister who thinks that it is perfectly acceptable to sell peerages to people contributing large sums of money to his party. Under this system, as everyone should by now have become aware, everything you do will go directly into the data base, including purely personal matters such as bank transactions (there is already quite sufficient law to deal with fraud and money-laundering, so why….?), buying groceries or applying for a job. In the (all too near) future, if you refuse to be fingerprinted and eye-scanned, you will not be able to get a passport. Your ID card will, just like your passport, not be your property. The Home Secretary will have the right to revoke or suspend your ID at any time meaning, for example, that you will not be able to withdraw money from your bank account, or do anything that requires you to present your government-issued ID card. For which, incidentally, you are going to have to pay almost £100 to get in the first place, according to current estimates.

All the evidence I have seen is quite categoric: ID cards won’t prevent terrorism. They simply do not work. Unless, of course, your aim is to totally control the life from birth to death of every citizen of the country, in which case they will work very well indeed.
I have not even mentioned Blair’s belief that we have the right to interfere with force in other states’ internal affairs; Belmarsh; detention without trial – effectively suspending Habeas Corpus or, in Scotland, the Act Against Wrangful Imprisonment; ASBOs….. One of the worst items of all is the new legislation currently wending its way through parliament, which will enable the Prime Minister to introduce new legislation by-passing parliament altogether. Incredible? It is happening NOW!

Armed Citizenry?

I cannot be alone in perceiving what is happening and indeed am not, for a number of journalists have begun to highlight what we face. But we are still much too supine. A friend of mine, a rational, common-sensical friend, experienced in the ways of the world, keeps telling me that the only way we will counter this threat is for the population to be armed. He maintains that it is extremely dangerous when the forces of the state are the only ones allowed to be armed. I used to disagree with him completely; now, I begin to fear he may have a point.

Indisputably we look to our elected representatives to ensure that the country is well-governed and safe. The current leaders may maintain all these measures are for our ‘security’, but we cannot live wrapped in cotton wool and evidence that they will make us more secure is lacking anyway. If the money to be spent on ID cards, for example, were allocated to beefing-up resources available to defeat crime, there might be a lot more security quite quickly.

We have resisted total state control over us before and we must do it again. Urgently.

David Renwick Grant