UK's Prime Minister declares government should control citizens' lives, political activities even if they obey the law
(NaturalNews) In the age of Barack Obama, big corporate banks, militarized police and the surveillance state, the world's Western leaders -- those who have been responsible for all of the above -- appear ready to make their final push towards authoritarianism.
Early on, they made their plans known in mostly small ways, such as via a policy change here or a piece of legislation there. However, Britain's newly elected prime minister just made an incredibly creepy statement that ought to give UK citizens pause as well as everyone in Western "democracies," including the United States.
Couching his comments in new measures aimed at "battling terrorism," Prime Minister David Cameron said the following in his post-election Queen's Speech:
For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone. It's often meant we have stood neutral between different values. And that's helped foster a narrative of extremism and grievance. This Government will conclusively turn the page on this failed approach.
As noted by Michael Krieger over at the blog Liberty Blitzkrieg:
This statement, and others like it, are a huge deal. This isn't how the leader of a major civilized Western so-called "democracy" speaks to the citizenry. It is how a master talks to his slaves. How a ruler addresses his subjects.
