welcome to the out-of-control decade, page-9

These are the new politics that matter.

Forget Liberal v Labor, Left v Right, they all merged some years ago. There is nothing left between them. Its as useful as baracking for your football team after the game is over and the lights have gone out in the stadium.

What matters is the struggle between the right of the individual to go about his life as he pleases as long as he harms no one else (the situation for most of the last 500 years) and the reversion to a modern form of serfdom imposed by an army of technologically equipped Sheriffs of Notingham.

The Sheriffs have already effectively nobbled the magna carta and the common law. You may think this an extreme view, but consider this; Hundreds of years ago a man had the right to take his case to a magistrate and put his case against the crown. If we take our case against a public servant to court and lose we will pay a penalty, government and our own costs. If we win the public servant shrugs his shoulders and we may get a fraction of our real costs back. Every minor public servant has the effective right, at no risk to him, to impose on the spot penalties. A citizen has no logically choice but to doff his cap and pay.


There are many aspects to the advance of Statism over liberty. Don't look to Libs or Labs to stop it. Socialists or facists all work to steadily reduce individual freedoms.

Few governments leave power with less laws in place than they started with. All want to put in place a further layer of constraints on liberty with their own imprint.

The internet and forums such as this must be painful for the lords. The 'freedom of the press' was a joke, that freedom was theoretical only, but this medium must irritate. It can't last it will quickly be whittled away, for our own protection from ourselves you understand.

Most people will only realise somethings amiss when they experience the local department head turn up for Jus Primae Noctis.

Bacci