It's very strange the way this article has disappeared. I linked to it quite soon after the message about it was posted here. I went straight to it. I read it. I thought it was interesting and planned to go back to it later today. And now it has gone!
Tina
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> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:34:47 +0100
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: pullman on liberty
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> From where I am, reading the news in various online publications every day -
> I remain English thoughr fo I have long consigned the UK to the dustbin of
> history in my mind - what he says is just. It's *that* bad.The nanny-state
> is the British way of describing it with humour - but preserve us from such
> a devouring nanny! I fear its encroachment as the EU commission becomes more
> demanding & controlling. In the end universal darkness will cover all, only
> the frozen wastes of Canada will remain for those who yearn for
> liberty to escape to - but how long before they too thaw & the surveillance
> rats move in?
> mj
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 7:29 PM
> Subject: Re: pullman on liberty
>
>
> > very interesting, sad, frightening. is it really that bad yet? or just,
> > so to speak, in the laws passed as prologue...?
> >
> > Doug
> > On 27-Feb-09, at 5:28 AM, Martin Walker wrote:
> >
> >> This was in the Times today - I would have expected it in the Guardian
> >> or Independent.
> >> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5811412.ece
> >>
> >> M.J.Walker - no webpage, no blogspot, no idea
> >>
> >> Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the
> >> comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is
> >> violating all His laws.
> >> John Adams to Thomas Jefferson.
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >
> > Latest books:
> > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> > Wednesdays'
> > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
> >
> > It's always night or we wouldn't need light.
> >
> > Thelonious Monk
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