ID Cards & Binge-Drinking Threaten Tyranny In The UK

Both the Guardian and Daily Telegraph warned this week that Britain is sliding inexorably towards tyranny, under sinister new laws including changes in alcohol licensing laws and compulsory ID cards.

"We may fret about illegal immigration and improper use of the NHS, but the national identity register, which will include adults' fingerprints and an electronic scan of the face or iris, as well as date of birth and address, is the tyrant's ideal means of control," said Guardian columnist Henry Porter.

"To be anonymous, to go privately, to move residence without telling the authorities is a fundamental liberty which is about to be taken away from us. We are about to surrender a right which is precious, rare even in Western democracies and profoundly emblematic of our culture and civilisation," he warned.

While the Guardian article railed against the passivity of most Brits towards ID cards, Daily Telegraph star writer Theodore Dalrymple identified British culture's embrace of "drunkenness to the point of brutish amnesia' as a key factor in stifling protest.

"By its changes to licensing laws and the proposed further changes (to introduce 24 hour drinking), successive governments have endorsed this psychological switch," he declared.

"For there is nothing bad and power seeking governments fear more than a virtuous and self controlled population. Therefore, let them drink alco-pops. Then they will be dependent on us," said Dalrymple.

Tyranny Links:

http://www.constitution.org/tyr/quotes.htm ("Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains. — Herbert Hoover')

http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm (Mussolini: The Doctrine Of Fascism (1932): "Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a historic entity. It is opposed to classical liberalism . . .' Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and the economic sphere . . .')
">http://www.constitution.org/tyr/prin_tyr.htm ("Tyranny is usually thought of as cruel and oppressive, and it often is, but the original definition of the term was rule by persons who lack legitimacy, whether they be malign or benevolent . . . Tyranny does not have to be deliberate. Tyrants can fool themselves as thoroughly as they fool everyone else . . .')

http://www.constitution.org/tyr/quotes.htm ("Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains. — Herbert Hoover')

http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm (Mussolini: The Doctrine Of Fascism (1932): "Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a historic entity. It is opposed to classical liberalism . . .' Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and the economic sphere . . .')
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