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Originally Posted by kirklancaster

Please stop with the hysterics and hyperbole T.S. -- 'Slaves'?

I have no manacles or shackles. I can go where I want, do what I want. Eat and drink what I want.

Yes you can. Do you know why? Because luckily for us, our forefathers believed strongly in civil liberties and fought hard, and fearlessly, to secure that freedom.

And now a few hundred years later, here we are, slowly selling those freedoms, accepting more and more government surveillance and control, in exchange for security and comfort. Like a bunch of big, fat, lazy labradors.

As has been mentioned, a big part of the Tory campaign 6 years ago was them hammering Labour for being a nanny state, for mollycoddling and nannying citizens. Remember the proposed mandatory citizen ID cards? Remember how much of a stink Cameron's Tory opposition made about those in the name of freedom? And yet here they are, merrily clawing away at exactly the same things.

It's not this one proposal. It's the slow, steady grinding effect of a proposal here and a proposal there, which will see this country - in a few relatively short decades - a sad little ant farm controlled entirely by fear.