David Davis Speech For Freedom And Liberty
DAVID Davis is right to say
Now the counter terrorism bill will in all probability be rejected by the House of Lords very firmly. After all, what should they be there for if not to defend Magna Carta.
But because the impetus behind this is essentially political - not security - the government will be tempted to use the Parliament Act to over-rule the Lords. It has no democratic mandate to do this since 42 days was not in its manifesto.
Its legal basis is uncertain to say the least. But purely for political reasons, this government’s going to do that. And because the generic security arguments relied on will never go away - technology, development and complexity and so on, we’ll next see 56 days, 70 days, 90 days.
But in truth, 42 days is just one - perhaps the most salient example - of the insidious, surreptitious and relentless erosion of fundamental British freedoms.
And we will have shortly, the most intrusive identity card system in the world.
A CCTV camera for every 14 citizens, a DNA database bigger than any dictatorship has, with 1000s of innocent children and a million innocent citizens on it.
We have witnessed an assault on jury trials - that bulwark against bad law and its arbitrary use by the state. Short cuts with our justice system that make our system neither firm not fair.
And the creation of a database state opening up our private lives to the prying eyes of official snoopers and exposing our personal data to careless civil servants and criminal hackers.
The state has security powers to clamp down on peaceful protest and so-called hate laws that stifle legitimate debate - while those who incite violence get off scot-free.
This cannot go on, it must be stopped. And for that reason, I feel that today it’s incumbent on me to take a stand.
I will be resigning my membership of the House and I intend to force a by-election in Haltemprice and Howden.
- David Davis MP
June 13th, 2008 at 9:13 am
But ‘Here comes the SUN’…the KMcK Murdock man
Read the SUN future ruler of Halt ‘em prices and How den address the UK problems ?
(ADAPTED) Song for Davis - sung by the People’s Princess’s Songwriter for the People’s Freedom Fighter?
‘Don’t Let The SUN Go Down On Me’
I can light more of your darkness
All my pictures must not fade to black and white
I’m growing tired and time stands still before me
Frozen here on the ladder of my life
Its much too late to save myself from falling
I took a chance to stop changes to your way of life
But you misread my meaning when I met you
Called me vain and left me blinded by the light
Dont let the SUN go down on me
Although I search myself, its someone else’s future I see
I’d fight to let more fragments of your life wander free
But losing everything is like the SUN going down on me
June 13th, 2008 at 9:31 am
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AgendaWide
Nice one
June 13th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Jo
I like a man of passion
Vie DayVie Vie against 42 wrong answers Da-vis-à-Da-vis ‘Life the universe and everything’
No to allDayvideo CCTV and identity cards
Is this some sort of DDayvis?
June 13th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Where does this lickspittle stand on the total waste of British blood in Afghanistan and Iraq?
The BNP should challenge this old boys club!
June 13th, 2008 at 10:45 am
…seize the DDay(vis)….
..but I think the PM has wasted a lot of time and effort (and just maybe money) arm-bending over something which looks like a dead duck anyway - surely he must be able to come up with some other crowd-pleaser..?
June 13th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Here is a leading and experienced politician who has cut through the media circus, and even the House of Commons adversarial pary political circus, because he wishes to highlight a very alarming national trend: the creeping erosion of civil liberties, enshrined in such acts as Habeas Corpus and Magna Carta, and the advance of the surveillance society. He is taking a very courageous personal stand which rises above and beyond party political affiliations.
I don’t buy the idea, as portrayed by some in the national press, that this is a mid-life crisis or an ego-trip,. This man consulted Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti before coming to a decision, and his decision has been applauded as a principled stand by none other than Tony Benn.
I have nothing but respect for him.
See: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article2104562.ece?token=null&offset=0
To M&A: Sorry for factually inaccurate previous posts to MMC blog. I had not seen this thread. Howeverf imho, this thread demands much more attention than the MMC one.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Amused Bystander,
I too have respect for him.
It is these steps that show the opposition to the forces that are currently rule, that give me hope.
And once someone makes that step, you will find many others following.
The hundredth monkey syndrome.
And if Ireland would just refrain from signing the EU treaty, then I would
finally feel the winds of change in my bones.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Hannasus.
Yes.
And here is another interesting article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7265212.stm
June 13th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Hannasus
Yes
And here’s another interesting article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7265212.stm
June 13th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Glad to see Mr Davis is keeping up that old Conservative tradition of foot shooting.
(his own that is)
June 14th, 2008 at 1:09 am
I frankly think he is a wanker who has nothing to lose. But. I also believe that the public have managed to be persuaded that because ‘ they do nothing to be ashamed of’ they are too willing to give up freedoms, freedoms of which they don’t know the value
ID card for example - they will know far too much information that they do not need to know. They can, already, gather the information they need from the existing Databases (NI numbers), and they can still without the ‘all on one database’ concept with disparate databases. The risks with a single database are huge. Could be here forever listing them, but it will never be secure, with the internal and external risks.
I will not carry an ID card, end of.
June 15th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Did Shami chakrabarti play the wee boy in “The Grudge”?
As for liblabcon politicians making a principled stand - you must be f…… joking!