Re: The Sceptic

Unfortunately, you do appear to be a flame account used by bored Reg hacks to boost comments (sticking to conspiracy and all that), but, I do have a question - what kind of person coming into our country are you talking about? Asylum seekers? They definitely don't have more rights than we do, as the majority are actually rejected, even under compelling evidence. Do you mean illegal immigrants? While I agree we have a problem with illegal immigration, it is nowhere near the scale that certain papers make out, and, when caught, they have less rights than us, more likely to be extradited (even if they have lived a long time, or have children born here. It is quite possible for them to be extradited and their children to remain, as with asylum seekers). Or do you mean economic migrants? I don't see what rights economic migrants have over normal residents unless you do in fact believe the Daily Mail. They pay tax as we do, save councils money, bring in huge money to the country, and are generally quite easy going. So which do you mean?

As to other conspiracy stuff, I am in fact of the opinion that we live in a pretty dangerous country, with the government being given more power almost on a daily basis to mistreat normal citizens, never mind the possibility of rendition to a foreign jail or gitmo, based on the colour of your skin, or being shot 7 times in the head. CCTV coverage is truly ridiculous, and we flew domestically this weekend, and found the systems in place even more hair-brained. Every fifth person putting their shoes through the X-ray, having to put my lighter in a plastic bag..

In some ways we are a lot worse than China, China do what they do because they want power, and are as insecure as any other communist government before them (with good reason). We do it (under the pretense at least) because of terrorism, and if that truly is the reason, we've lost to some guys who couldn't even blow up a car. When the IRA killed people in London we stood strong and refused to move, now we have some crap terrorists, driving into airport bollards and it causes us to allow our government, the same people who are meant to speak for the people, to remove our basic liberties, watch our every movement, track our numberplates, and grab us at will for internment. Nice one Britain.