Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Yet the people of Britain believe themselves to be free.

In the UK there are fines for leaving the lid of a trash can open, for putting that trash can in the wrong place or leaving it too early for collection, there are speed cameras everywhere, parking fines abound, whatever a resident of that island seeks to do they will find themselves bound by laws at every turn. Yet the people of Britain believe themselves to be free.


- a quote from this mind-blowing article at Signs of the Times.

3 Comments:

Blogger mamacrow said...

hum. I agree this is all dreadful, and I hate to be head in the sand ish, but all I can say is 'not in my neck of the woods'.

then again, papers love to group lots of fairly mind blowing things together and insinuate that all of them happen everywhere all of the time. Makes a bigger headline.

December 6, 2008 at 10:37 PM  
Blogger Gill said...

It's not a newspaper article, it's a short extract from a very long, detailed and well-researched internet article including a fascinating (to me) journey through key aspects of British legal history.

December 7, 2008 at 9:25 AM  
Blogger Riaz said...

British people are too obsessed with football and Eastenders.

The Dissident Congress website is now back up and running again.

December 12, 2008 at 12:36 AM  

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