{"id":218,"date":"2006-04-25T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=218"},"modified":"2006-04-25T13:32:31","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T13:32:31","slug":"captain-hogwashs-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Captain Hogwash&#8217;s Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Ha, beaten to it while I was working! Darn you and your socks!)<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the government are finally seeing what hatred their piratical mutiny of HMS UK propogates. You will see that not only the readers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/story\/0,,1760575,00.html\">the Guardian<\/a> will not take the bullshit proffered by the Home Secretary but neither will the editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=XC22WMWITYGQXQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=\/opinion\/2006\/04\/25\/dl2501.xml&amp;sSheet=\/portal\/2006\/04\/25\/ixportal.html\">The Telegraph<\/a>, and let them be aware this is the tip of the iceberg, they would do well to remember they only have the &#8216;mandate&#8217; of roughly 20% of the electorate.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed not only does Hogwash peddle the same old lies about the impact of his legislation, he introduces misleading conflations about those who write agianst the government. He twists the comparison from history of the way the Nazis imposed ever increasingly authoritarian and discriminatory legislation into some spiel about the Holocaust, this is incorrect (google &#8211; holocaust and blair or clarke,&#8230;) and oversimplifies the tragedies of the Nazi regime to the killing of Jews.<br \/>\nThe comparison stacks up &#8211; the (ab)use of the media is comparable, the cynical &#8216;populism&#8217; is comparable, the creation of an &#8216;Other&#8217; within our society is comparable, the inventorising of the people is comparable, the brazenly simplistic belief in &#8216;technology&#8217; to cure society is comparable, the monomania of their policies is comparable.<br \/>\nThe comparison is made not out of spite or delusion but because it is relevant, we can learn from history even if it isn&#8217;t exactly the same as our times. The people will not forget history no matter how much Neu Labour try to assert 1997 as year zero &#8211; to abolish history and in so doing try to remove the notion of a different future.<br \/>\nTalk of how the situation may worsen in the face of legislation and schemes that are poorly defined (Terrorism Act), spiteful (directed against Brian Haw &#8216;s demonstration), inefficient (ANPR, NIR, ID cards), counter to the UK way of life (NIR, ID cards) is not only legitimate it is absolutely necessary when the government steadfastly refuses to any voice against them &#8211; if it is the case that people only pay attention when ministers are called Nazis then that is what will be done.<br \/>\nIf it the case that people need to refuse to cooperate then that is what will be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Ha, beaten to it while I was working! Darn you and your socks!) It looks like the government are finally seeing what hatred their piratical mutiny of HMS UK propogates. You will see that not only the readers of the Guardian will not take the bullshit proffered by the Home Secretary but neither will the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}