Whilst you have arrived at the right conclusion, try to find a politcal party that supports less government surveillance. Actually there is one, it is called the UKIP, but the last time I mentioned this, some ignorant anonymous bastard wrote this:

"The reason not so many people vote for UKIP is because they come across as hateful fucking bigots, by and large, one step short of BNP in a sharp suit."

I say ignorant, because this person has done exactly what I said (which is very common), and judged them on what the tory press and the socialist BBC says about them, and lumped them in with the hateful and racist BNP.

Incidentally, the UKIP had a clause in their 2005 manifesto that would enable the UK to have referendums on any subject, at the instigation of the public. The other parties grudgingly agreed to have one on that recipe for war, the EU nottaconstitution, and then reneged!

So who are the "hateful fucking bigots" in "sharp suits" now?

It has been my view for many years that trusting government is a very foolish thing.

Yesterday, I wiled away a couple of hours in a (former) KGB Prison. I read the scripts relating the tale of the Soviet invasion of Lithuania. It details the behaviour of the soviet forces and how they set about destroying an incredibly beautiful city (Vilnius).

Tony Blair and his accolytes followed the same path as Stalin. Gordon Brown is attempting to follow the same path as Tony Blair. Start with the little things, RIPA against animal rights extremists, put tags on the paedophiles, who will argue, no one. Why? Because I am not an animal rights extremist or a paedophile?

The sad thing is, neither of these groups are the target, they are used, cynically, to prise freedom from everybody's grasp.

Stop them now.

If you dont vote them out, or resist their intrusions, the future you will have can be seen in a dark prison cell under a beautiful building in Vilnius.

Heh. Heh heh. Priceless. Our creaking FPTP system permits each of us, every now and then, to have a miniscule influence on which of two gangs with equivalent policies gets to have access to greater embezzlement and corruption opportunities for a while.

Closest thing we have to democracy is the possibility of insurrection.