The other issue is my despair. Our freedoms
are not simply under attack - they have been grossly undermined by the actions
of the US and UK governments in the last few years. As for the UK police, words
fail me!
This week, the Guardian, which I have now
given up reading because it makes me so sad, has revealed the 'Prism' program
which apparently allows the US government to monitor telephone and internet
records of any US citizen communicating with any foreigner.
It has been suggested (and denied) that
GCHQ in Britain benefits from this information. But that is clearly untrue -
see the Guardian 22.06.13.
It has also come to my attention that a
major re-fit at Menwith Hill is under way.
Menwith Hill, in Yorkshire, is an immense
American communicatons monitoring station on British soil and I have always
suspected that British spooks go to Menwith Hill with their requests for
surveillance rather than applying to the Home Secretary or a judge when they
need a suspect monitored.
How happy I would be, if I knew that
suspicion were wrong.
The British state has been grossly
over-powerful, mendacious and ruthless for as many years as I have been alive.
Seventy, this year.
In 1959 or 1960 in a school boy's debate at
St. Paul's School, at the age of 16 or 17, I put to Lord Hailsham (then in the
Cabinet), the accusation that British troops had tortured and killed Kenyans
who supported (or were accused of supporting) the Mau Mau independence movement
in their country.
He brushed it off.
It has taken 53 years for those Kenyans to
get near to justice and to receive compensation for the ghastly injuries
(including castration) inflicted by soldiers from the British army.
Compensation was agreed last week.
Hypocrisy is the British disease. Hypocrisy,
venality and lock-tugging subservience to a class system and a country which
makes us 'subjects' instead of citizens, serfs and slaves instead of
individuals with hope.
I am very frightened for my grand-children.
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