Over the last 4 years the attack against dissenting speech regarding Bush's Godly unending war for freedom with the familiar phrases: shut up, you can't say that, you are a traitor if you don't support...

Polite politically correct language explains away much of the oppression of speech as "market pressures that drive the integrity of journalism downward."

Now Tony Blair has gone beyond most US pressures to censor free speech.
He says "those who spread words of hate will be deported".

The implication is that citizens are exempt and only radical muslim clerics will be sent packing, afterall if this taken literally the question arises; where do we send citizen critics of the government. Hull?

How would this UK policy fly in the US. Obviously the word 'hate' would have a very narrow definition or we would have have to deport Rush Limbaugh somewhere. Maybe to an off shore Oxycontin factory.



The sytematic dissolution of free speech is creating a wider divide among people in the US. There is a growing delusion of: us and them, red and blue, believers and non-believers, Christians vs. (god knows who).

There is a palatable sensation of what can not be said to neighbors even during election times. It has gone beyond "lets not go there".
It is at the "shut the F up level".

In the UK citizens are assured free speech, except those citizens who might make a difference. If you are a scientist who can prove that the Iraq WMDs were a fraud you might be in danger. Death is the ultimate deportation.


RIP Robin Cook.



Free speech is not dead but it is very sick at the moment. Within a couple more generations, the challenge to get it back may be insurmountable.

If you think the internet will be a safe haven for free speech forever you could be wrong. Legislating mandatory back doors
for the goverment
is just the begining.

Or maybe a 38% approval rating of GWB is the sign that we have had enough big brother despotism during his family's 12 years of rule.