Tag Archives: police state

Set tasers to stun, Jacqui

My earlier advice about recruiting Pikey police has clearly fallen on deaf ears. The nation was stunned – not literally, yet – by today’s news from our own Sarah Palin, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, that 10,000 tasers would be issued and 30,000 police trained in their use. Amnesty International report that 300 people have died [...]

Identity cards are great – put me down for a couple!

Despite heavy opposition in the House of Lords, the UK government is trudging ahead with its identity card project. Opposition counts for little in our authoritarian 21st Century democracy, even if some of it is from your own tribe. From 2009, all new johnny foreigners will be obliged to carry an identity card while applying [...]