Special mention for Meow who was very keen on me gracing the pages of my blog with some soapboxing that might amount to something slightly satirical.
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So the Home Office is to be split up into a department of JUSTICE (doesn't that just sound straight out of a comic book doesn't it) and the department of SECURITY (also slightly comicbookesque. It seem the despotic future that folks like Alan Moore have hinted at is upon us).
Now this is all well and good as the Home Office is apparently "unfit for purpose" and there have been some fairly large cock ups from it as it does have a massive remit to juggle. But how can we separate anti-terrorism messures from "Justice" with many of them revolving around forcing us to have ID cards (which I'm only opposed to paying for, not having. I'll pay for a passport as it lets me go abroad, I'll pay for a driving licence as it lets me drive, I won't pay to be a damned citizen) and agreeing just how many human rights for suspected terrorists can be broken by deciding to lock them up without charge for longer than say rapists, paedophiles and drug dealers.
Security and Justice, Law and order they're all interlinked hence them being in the same department to begin with. Plus allot of the apparent failures aren't really failures at all. Much complaint has been levied due to the lack of any numbers in regards to how many illegal immigrants we have in the UK which is a bit silly as if you can count them you can stop them entering the country.
Will this help, possibly still strikes me as just doing something purely to look like they're doing something and thus appeasing everyone who is forever moaning about everything.
Sunday, 21 January 2007
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