Anarchy

[Kyuuketsuki]

Ok I won't flog the voter turnout any more, save to say you haven't altered my view.

Fair enough

However, at the next general election, as things are right now,if Labour persists in roling out id cards, I will vote for the party that will not. Civil liberties are being eroded at an alarming rate under the so-called international war on terror.

Terrorism scares me just as much as it does the next person but it seems to me that it's the very fact that our society is so open that allows bad people to act with impunity within it. As such I have to decide which means more to me ... civil liberties or safety and given that I broadly speaking believe that civil liberty, education, freedom of thought & word 'n all that stuff are all closely connected I'd have to choose to remain open and accept that people (myself included) may get hurt or dead from time to time.

I suppose it's the idea that I'd rather be free and in potential danger than safe and enslaved.

Kyu