RE: [OT] Free CalTex Interplanetary Federation in the making

And who do we have who could save us from this evil...Kennedy and
Duncan-Smith...I think its time for a millitary coup in Britain, just
imagine HMS Cornwall steaming up the Thames, shelling the houses of
parliment, whilst the SAS storm chequers...aaahh lovely. Give the Queen
full
power to rule and open the Tower for business once again.

Seriously though, you are correct. Our current government has taken
actions
to alter the balance of political laws in this country to promote its
own
interests in a manner that is distinctly unsettling. Some of their
actions
(I'm reffering to domestic policies not foreign here) have been
downright
totalitarian. Remember 2000-01, the fuel price protest and resulting
chaos,
the suppression of the foot and mouth outbreak for 3 months so that by
the
time the government realised that they couldn't cover it up any longer
and
that it wasn't going to go away, it was too late  to save several
million
livestock and prevent the shutdown of large tracts of land, crippling
both
agriculture and tourism. And then they get voted back in...

To quote the greatest philosopher of the 20th century, one Charlie
Brown,
"Good Grief".

Regards,

Matt Tope

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[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Roger Burton
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Sent: 29 September 2003 12:07
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [OT] Free CalTex Interplanetary Federation in the making

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:02:12PM +0100, Matt Tope wrote:
>At least with the old (1000yrs+) system dementia arising from
inbreeding
>kept the House of Lords from being of any kind of relevance (or threat)
to
>every day life in the UK.

It served the very useful role of stopping the government of the day (of
whatever flavour) from pushing through any legislation it felt like - or
at least trimming off the worst excesses of it. This government has
systematically disabled all such safeguards on its power.

R