Tried to find a link to this last night but 
actualsean
posted a link to a story on his LJ so that made things easier finding
the one I wanted plus reading about other infringements....
"I pass protesters every day at Downing Street, and believe me,
you name it, they protest against it. I may not like what they call me
but I thank God they can. That's called freedom" - Tony Blair, April
2002
Not in Britian anymore it seems.......
A Casualty of Free Speech (The Independent Online Edition; Saturday 10th December 2005)
Blair's Britain 2005: Where Peaceful Protest Can Be Costly (The Independent Online Edition; Saturday 10th December 2005)
............Where's "V" when you need him......
actualsean
posted a link to a story on his LJ so that made things easier finding
the one I wanted plus reading about other infringements.... "I pass protesters every day at Downing Street, and believe me,
you name it, they protest against it. I may not like what they call me
but I thank God they can. That's called freedom" - Tony Blair, April
2002
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression;
this includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to
seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and
regardless of frontiers" - Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
article 19
Not in Britian anymore it seems.......A Casualty of Free Speech (The Independent Online Edition; Saturday 10th December 2005)
Blair's Britain 2005: Where Peaceful Protest Can Be Costly (The Independent Online Edition; Saturday 10th December 2005)
............Where's "V" when you need him......
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I know when your film is released (now pushed back to 2006! - grrr) it'll probably spur on some debate and much needed attention into the flaws of government but we could do with some practical instructions and also a figurehead to lead. You up for coming out of fiction into fact?
(am gonna nick the links if that's okay)
I know various people keep saying that we really need to do something about this but little ever ends up being done. I think the time is fast approaching (actually I think it past a few years ago) when we're all just going to HAVE to do something other than just march and complain to our MPs. :(
Problem is I'm not keen on the Labour Party :(
Actually given the events in Hertfordshire I probably wouldn't have even made the the news.
I'd still like to go down there.
Perhaps it would be possible to meet with others.
We could form an orderly que, step into THE FUCKING ZONE OF SHAME one by one and voice our support for article 19.
Since there could be no question about the Governments support for article 19, we obviously be supporting the govt. It would not be possible to class this peaceful act of support as a protest.
But when we get arrested what will it mean?
I'm serious.
I'll do it...anyone?
I really do not envy you guys at all :(
I KNOW!
This is SO annoying.
But we don't need V.
We a long way away from V.
We do need press censorship however.
"The press may no longer print a story about celebrities"
"The press must present two opposing sides to each argument- not leaving it alone to the Independant to report what you ALL should have been featuring"
"Freedom of speech carries with it burdens of responsibility: failure to comply means you can STILL speak freekly, you just can't inflict your biased views upon society in general."
We have the Indepedant and The Guardian... The Mirror and The Sun (and YES, I will defend The Sun- they DO carry counter views to their editorial policy- although the first rule will bugger them), so that leaves us the Mail/Express/Telegraph to have their editors arrested.
And some people think i am kidding.
Which is worse?
Allowing the 'offical line' of news from Iraq to be reported at the expense of objective journalism; deliberatly reporting counter arguments from biased political commentators; talking about the size of the Joe Rooney's girlfriends boots!!!!?
:)