British Libertarian Party Fights Surveillance with George Orwell

Over 400 age ago today , Guy Fawkes and his carbon monoxide - coconspirator post 20 barrel of powder beneath the British House of Lords . Today , the Houses of Parliament are getting a much more peaceable , but perhaps equally incendiary , delivery . Chafing beneath Britain ’s widespread surveillance and increasingly restrictive laws , the Libertarian Party UK is air each Member of Parliament a word of advice shot on the counsel of their land : a copy of George Orwell ’s anti - totalistic novel Nineteen Eighty - Four . Yesterday , the Libertarian Party announced the launching of its “ 1984 Campaign , ” and by today , each Member of Parliament will have received a copy of Nineteen Eighty - Four from volunteer members of the grassroots campaign . The books will be inscribed with the monition : “ This book was a word of advice , not a blueprint . ” But some military police have been angered by the comparing between modern day Britain and Orwell ’s dystopian nightmare . Tom Harris , MP for Glasgow , received his copy of the Quran a few days ago . In his web log , Harris rail against the intend substance inhis blog :

[ T]here seem to be an awful mountain of people out there – perhaps dozens of them – who seem to get strangely exercised at the prospect of a “ police body politic ” . Except that what they specify as a “ police state ” is a million lightheaded years from what Orwell himself described . CCTV cameras in the street ? That ’s just like Nineteen Eighty - Four , when fellowship were monitor in their own homes , 24 hours a day ! Ca n’t use anti-Semite terms to vilify people any more ? Well , surely that ’s thought offence , just like Orwell predict ! What trash . As I ’ve written here before , this is all paranoid fantasy , and why so many people get off on it , I ’ll never know . I latterly had the latest in a series of requests from constituents regarding CCTV . Requests to have the cameras removed ? No , no , no … Requests for more cameras … We survive in a democracy , and just because those — include my anon. helper — who get excited about such thing are unhappy that Labour is in power , that does not make us anything other than a democracy . And democratically - elect governments order with the consent of the hoi polloi . Yes , even this one !

The UK government may be democratically elect , but with four million CCTV cameras , Britain is the most - review nation in the world . And censorship of on-line material , and lawmaking like the 2006 Terrorism Act , have put increasingly dangerous restrictions on delivery . It might be worthwhile for British legislative body to take this opportunity to pause and shine on what form of country they ’re creating . Press Release Libertarian UK[viaThe Labour PartyviaReddit ]

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