Malcolm Blair-Robinson's Blog, page 189
January 15, 2015
Cameron Woos Obama
David Cameron, as part of his election campaign, has flown off to the White House to boost his credentials as a world statesman of whom note is taken. It will impress voters. Actually it won’t because as the old saying goes, those voters have other fish to fry. Living standards, immigration, the NHS, their children’s schools, job prospects for the young; all the stuff Cameron does not want to talk about. By contrast Labour talks about nothing else, but not enough people are listening. Maybe their leader is a bit, well kind of, you know. Of course loads of people listen to Nigel, mostly in pubs. Then there’s Nick. Yes. Who?
So David will cosy up to Barak and they will agree on everything as they always do anyway. It is a fact worth noting that the US has the strongest recovery in the West following the recession and it is based on the diversity of its economy with its technological lead, its manufacturing capacity, its near self sufficiency on fair value energy and its can do culture.
There is another factor which makes Cameron feel good. America is the only country in the world that owes more money than the UK. Phew, that’s a relief.
Security v Freedom
The UK Home Secretary wants to introduce new powers to allow the police to intercept texts, phone messages and emails in order to keep ahead of people wanting to kill innocent citizens. She is a Tory. Her Lib Dem partners in the Coalition oppose this move on the grounds that it is an unjustified surrender of privacy in a democracy and to let it go through would be a victory for the terrorists.
The Lib Dems have the moral high ground but on the wrong hill. Viewed from an armchair or a debating chamber the notion of individual liberty free from state snooping is a non-negotiable foundation of a free society. Faced with a direct threat to those they love, wives, children, parents, partners, which can only be relived by surrendering a part of that freedom, most civilised people would give it up gladly. This is why this non-partisan blog says with conviction that in this case the Lib Dems are wrong and the Tories are right.
In WWII there were huge restrictions on personal freedom. Everybody carried identity cards and there was censorship of mail. I found an old letter written to my parents from a friend, a woman whose son was serving in the army, with part of the letter cut out with a razor. Clearly the lady had said something she should not have. There was also an Orwellian sounding Ministry of Information.
We can debate at length whose fault it is young people have become radicalised, but the fact is they have and they do terrible things. Until we have worked out a way to de-radicalize them and eliminate the threat, we have to do whatever it takes to guard against it. If that means that the authorities have to snoop on all of us, we must pay the price until the threat is removed. And if you are Lib Dem and don’t like that, too bad. If you cannot cope, get rid of your PC, smart phone and tablet and live in the past. The rest of us want to be sure our loved ones go on living safely in the now.
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France: Marching For Freedom
Whatever goal the terrorists responsible for the Paris attacks set themselves and whichever Islamic group they adhered to, the reaction cannot have been one they expected, nor that they would have sought.
History will recall not the attack, but the response. Up to four million French people of every ethnicity marching for the liberty which they believe to be the foundation of the French nation. Among them forty-seven leaders from countries across the globe. The magazine at the centre of the atrocity appearing for its next issue with another cartoon of the Prophet with a print run, not of its usual sixty thousand, but of three million.
That this is all a game changer is certain. How it will change which game in what way is unclear. Whether freedom of speech and expression includes the freedom to insult and make fun of other people’s religious convictions is not clear either.
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