COMMENT & ANALYSIS - Blair's lead; Letters to the Editor.Byline: J Mooney WHILE I agree with your recent correspondent who says there is nothing liberal about Liverpool's Lib-Dem administration, with its pettiness and its pounds 1m in parking fines, I would caution against expecting anything more liberal from a New Labour council in May. If they take their lead from Tony Blair's central government, and they do, consider what we have' bogus bo·gus adj. Counterfeit or fake; not genuine: bogus money; bogus tasks. [From obsolete bogus, a device for making counterfeit money. intelligence leading us to war, an attack on personal liberties leading to new arrest laws, increased state surveillance and detention without trial. Identity cards on a computer database with a heavy fine if you do not not let them know your change of address. A policy by Sir Ian Blair's Metropolitan Police Force leading to the extra-judicial death of an innocent man and, of course, the ease with which they lie, distort and deceive TO DECEIVE. To induce another either by words or actions, to take that for true which is not so. Wolff, Inst. Nat. Sec. 356. . Voltaire said "the price of liberty is eternal vigilance VIGILANCE. Proper attention in proper time. 2. The law requires a man who has a claim to enforce it in proper time, while the adverse party has it in his power to defend himself; and if by his neglect to do so, he cannot afterwards establish such claim, the ". I fear that we have not been vigilant and our public servants have forgotten their station. I only know of one other Blair. That was Eric. He wrote under the name of George Orwell. J Mooney, Eccleston Park |
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