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It’s all about protecting you

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I wonder, at what point will the British people rise up and revolt, really, against the changes being made to supposedly protect them?

There has been talk before (depending on where you read, of course) of Great Britain becoming a ‘police state’ and yes, it seems that there are some laws or changes that have been made with do cause some disquiet.

However, reading a couple of the latest stories (here and here), as well as numerous blogs (e.g. here), I find it hard to understand what is going on if it’s not turning into a police state.

From what I understood, the police work for us and so do the government (who make the laws upon which the police act). But something seems quite wrong, really, if innocent people, doing things that should> be fairly innocent, are surrounded by coppers thugs, handcuffed in the street for some time and then told, in the end, that it is for their safety.

I’m afraid (and I mean that in the true sense of the word) that, sooner or later, there will be a backlash. Certainly something has to happen. If nothing happens and no one cares enough then it seems like the terrorists won out in the end, destroying the freedom that we enjoyed in the UK by allowing the government (and their strong-arm boys, the Police) to make the UK resemble an old-style Fascist/Communist/Dictatorship state.

However, I’m sure this only happens in the bigger cities, so that’ll be alright, then, won’t it?

I think I may have a strategy

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I think I may have a strategy to get through this. Actually, it was something that someone mentioned over 20 years ago and it has just come to mind – well been sort of hanging in the background for a day or two.

The strategy is to have something, some project, to focus on and to devote one’s time to. Often, this can be work but I don’t do enough here to be able to do that and, unfortunately, the web stuff won’t do it for me either so it has to be something other than work.

And, then it came to me that, maybe, I could do an Italian thing and, using my contacts, help someone else. It doesn’t really give me anything – except what’s most important which is something to really concentrate on.

So I need to check a few things out and then I will have to ask the person, since the plan that would follow can only be with their agreement. This is, of course, where it may all fail but it’s worth a try as it’s something I am really interested in too.

Let’s hope so as, this morning, it was 3.30 ish when I woke up (because of a ambulance/fire engine siren) and no amount of anything would get me back to sleep!