Hoop's Blog

FIND THE COST OF FREEDOM

"This won't change our way of life". So said manic grinning Tony Blair after 9/11. His government then proceeded to pass law after law in order to limit our civil liberties, far more in fact  than any government has ever done. Surveilance cameras everywhere, ludicrous security measures put in place at airports creating irritating delays and inconvenience. Any self respecting suicide bomber only hs to walk into the check in and trigger their device to cause far more damage than would be done on a plane.( Don't give them the media coverage I say....deny them their story and they'll soon fade away.) Meanwhile DNA data bases on us all are still being considerded as I'm sure is an identity card. Big Brother is upon us, amongst us and gaining more and more control.

So I'm not surprised that after the "near miss" of a mad bomber on a US flight, the government now want to put into place even more stringient surveilience and security measures, which will include the very intrusive "body" scans. This of course will mean even more delays as we proceed through the undignified rat run of checking in for our flights. I remember when flying used to be quite a civilised and sophisticated mode of travel. Now we get packed into metal tubes three abreast, not dissimilar to the way African slaves were packed on board ships to be taken accros the Atlantic. I digress.

Then I read that the government now wants to add a further tax to the infuriating "Fixed Penalty" fines. 15 pounds a time...the idea that the money will go to help victims... What. explain that one!. and how will this be monitored I wonder. Just another example of a panic striken governmnet desperate to raise funds to try and shore up a sinking economy. They are willing to tax us wherever possible to claw back all the monies lost in the current disasterous economic climate of their own making. So why not pick on the car user yet again? Vat back up. Fuel costs soaring again, and all the "Global Warming"taxes to come.....I guess what I'm trying to say is....it might be a new year....but it looks like the same old lousy mess to me..and it's not getting better under Labour...it's always getting worse. This country, with it's liberalisation is rapidly going down the tubes. Soon as we can get rid of this lot the better. My life was so much better before they took control, and I had a lot more freedom.

 
 

 

GLOBAL WARNING

Resistance is futile. You will reduce consumption. 

As an adjunct to my last post, I notice that Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is now intending to put "Smart Power Meters in every home so we can monitor how much power we are using. Old style meters will be ripped out and replaced with these new gadgets which are programmed to turn appliances on and off, taking advantage of off-peak times to save power. (Won't this just result in off-peak times becoming peak times?)

Mobile phone technology will be used to transmit information on each families energy consumption to a centralized hub. i.e. Big brother will be watching you. The system will allow power companies to read meters remotely, thus doing away with estimated bills and meter readers. ( more lost jobs!)
These meters will allow consumers to see their energy usage on a daily basis and will everyone will be "encouraged" to cut back on consumption. Danger Will Robinson. Sounds like more centralized control to me and just the kind of thing I fear will be happened more and more. I predict a very controlled and monitored society in the future. For all our technological developments our grand parents had many more freedoms than we have today.

I will resist these measures as much as I can as I see no need for such control especially as it's all a direct result of this mass hysteria over Global Warming. I really am getting sick of this subject. Every day we have a daily diet of warnings combined with ludicrous solutions and recommendations, much of it fueled by the news media who regurgitate the latest apocalyptic scenarios which they have been fed by the powers that be. I was incredulous last week when a Holiday Company suggested that we all take responsible holidays when we fly to help stop global warming.! What the hell is a responsible holiday anyway? Their recommendation for a holiday of the month was to Australia...what's responsible about that?. Just a lot of ludicrous hyperbole. It would be interesting to see what would happen if these zealots really got their way and we all stopped flying completely. How would the airlines react, or the world tourist industries? Be careful, or you might get what you asked for.

Inevitably we are going to be inundated with this over the top reaction with the imminent Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, and the doom merchants are going to have a field day. For goodness sake everyone get a grip, climate changes.....except it, and except that there is nothing we can do about it.