Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 12, 2009

The United Kingdom... becoming socialist hell

We’re on the same miserable path of socialism as the United Kingdom.

So much is happening to strip Americans of their constitutional freedoms and rights and to dismantle our Constitution: oppressive fines and penalties built into ObamaCare, the looming VAT and global energy tax, the unexplained dismissal of the Black Panthers, the leftists’ attempt in Congress to silence dissension (lead Democrats are continually calling Americans who don’t agree with this government administration as Nazis, thugs, terrorists, brownshirts, and Taliban), the proposed “nanny state” regulation of businesses, our government’s clench fist tightening on media and Internet, Obama “de-terrorizing” the Taliban in Afghanistan, the inordinate number of radical czars in our White House, our nation’s weakened borders, the White House’s involvement with pushing Obama’s agenda through using the NEA, ACORN corruption that may have ties to Obama and/or his supporters, and other financial and judicial disparities… suffice it to say, we could, in just a few years, likely be in the same grim state that the United Kingdom is in now.

Even questioning the appropriateness of Pres. Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize is under attack by congressional Democrat elected leaders, who are angrily claiming that those who aren’t embracing his bizarre win are much like Taliban terrorists.

Just look at the escalating social and civil problems in the UK.

From the Daily Express:

HONEST CITIZENS PUT IN THE DOCK AS THUGS GO FREE
By Leo McKinstry
October 12, 2009

BRITAIN continues its descent into a socialist hell, devoid of any justice or morality. We now live in a sub-Marxist world where the ultra-politicised institutions of the State wield arbitrary power, bullying the decent members of the public while dangerous criminals walk free.

The legal system is fast becoming an instrument of oppression rather than a bulwark of civilisation. Such is the grip of Left-wing thinking on our so-called law enforcers that they are no longer willing to protect society from violence and thuggery.

Instead, they prefer to hound ordinary citizens over offences such as thought crimes or breaches of their myriad environmental regulations. Similarly, infringements of traffic rules are pursued with far more authoritarian zeal than is ever applied to burglary, assault, theft, drug abuse or vandalism. in this process of politicisation, common sense has disappeared and basic freedoms have been destroyed.

In the Big Brother culture created by Labour, full of vast databases, surveillance cameras, state- employed spies and intrusive questionnaires, all of us are now treated as potential criminal suspects for being insufficiently enthusiastic about cultural diversity or the fashionable green agenda.

Yet the real enemies of our society, like crack-addicted thieves, drunken yobs, benefit swindlers or islamic terrorists,
have little to fear from our enfeebled courts, which wallow in leniency and excuse-making. the only people whose human rights count are those of offenders, not their victims.

Never has criminal law been wider in its scope or more useless in its central purpose of maintaining order. Under Labour more than 3,600 new offences have been created since 1997 at a rate of 320 a year, including such major crimes as holding an unlicensed concert in a church hall.

Despite this frenzy of legislation, violent crime has more than doubled in the last 10 years, while the police and the Crown Prosecution Service have become so cowardly in the face of genuine brutality that fewer than half of all violent offenders are ever put through the courts.

Obsessed with politically correct environmentalism, ministers and judges now speak in ever-more threatening terms about the requirement for households to recycle their waste in the official, state-approved manner.

The Government has warned that homes will soon have to cope with even more complex rules, as part of this drive to turn Britain into a “zero-waste nation”, a pilot scheme is being tested in the north London borough of Brent where residents have been given boxes for recyclable items from a list of no fewer than 12 categories.

“We have a 12-step programme with a fixed penalty notice as the final step,” said one of Brent’s officials, sounding like a commissar in charge of a political re-education programme. Already, state fixation with green bullying has resulted in the kind of punishments that the courts would not dream of imposing on young thugs or serial shoplifters.

In Sunderland, for instance, residents have been threatened with fines of £1,000 for putting their rubbish out on the wrong day. Further south in the test valley in Hampshire, the local authority employs a team of 12 bin monitors, whose job is to compile a database of repeat environmental offenders, this in a political climate where the police and town halls continually bleat about “lack of resources” to deal with serious criminals.

Last week, guidelines by Lord Justice Sedley urged that magistrates should take a role “equal to Greenpeace” by punishing environmental offences more heavily. In a highly political statement, he argued that “despoliation of the environment is arguably the gravest of all problems we are going to hand on to our children”. it is telling that Sedley, once a tutor at a communist party summer school, has boasted that “changing the world” is one of his ideals.

The same twisted values can now be seen throughout public life in Britain. The Metropolitan Police employed no fewer than 25 officers in the arrest of Tory frontbencher Damian Green for daring to highlight the shambles of the Government’s immigration policy yet the State has displayed no such vigour in dealing with illegal migrants or foreign criminals.

The Government is now planning a surreptitious amnesty for at least 200,000 asylum seekers, 90 per cent of whose claims are bogus. in the same way, anyone who wants to work with children is treated as a potential paedophile yet the State is woefully ineffectual at dealing with the real menaces.

Only last month David Berry, 61, from Hartlepool, walked free from court despite amassing more than 500 images of child pornography. the judge imposed a meaningless community order rather than a jail sentence. today the Commons is debating a Government proposal to make it illegal for newsagents to display cigarettes for sale. Yet this is the same Government that has all but legalised soft drugs and treats dangerous addicts as victims of society rather than law breakers.

There is even a move, pushed last week by the Prison Governors association, to abolish all prison sentences of less than 12 months, replacing them with community sentences. the rest of us will be living in the shadow of fear, left defenceless by a State machine that is no longer on our side.

Additional reading:
Goodtimepolitics: Obama’s International Socialist Connections
Gateway Pundit: Coulter Agrees With Al Sharpton: Obama Won Nobel Because He Is Black (Video)
Michelle Malkin: What did I tell ya? Lindsey Graham signs on to cap-and-tax and Why parents don’t trust the Educator-in-Chief and his comrades and I repeat: It’s not the speech, it’s the subtext
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Bloggers In Pajamas Unite!
Nice Deb: Bombshell: Obama Poised To Cede Sovereignty According To British Lord
Patterico, Big Hollywood: The NEA, The White House, The Lies and The Cover-Up
VotingFemale’s Friends Speak!: How the Socialists did it… (video)
Steven Crowder, Big Hollywood: Lonewolf Diaries: The Obama Era is Over and Berkeley: Mecca to Liberal Idiots
Lisa Fabrizio, American Spectator: Colorblind?
Burt Prelutsky, Big Hollywood: Burt’s Eye View: Catching Up With the News
The Patriot’s Mind: Is Obama playing Godfather with the CBO?
Joseph Lawler, The American Spectator: The Avril Lavigne Corollary
Moonbat Patrol: Obama’s Plan, Sell The Smile, Detract, Confuse, Media Blitz A Ploy To Kill Momentum Against Health Care Plan
Sister Toldjah: Health-care rationing coming to Massachusetts
NewsBusters: Irony Alert: White House Praises ‘Unbiased’ CNN as Network Runs Promo Appealing to Democrats
Myra Sokoloff, Big Hollywood: Why America Loves ‘NCIS’
Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog: New “Pledge” Policy being Pursued: A “Miranda”-type Warning
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Dragnet’s Sgt. Friday to Obama: “Don’t Try to Build a New Country, Make the Old One Work” (video) and Exposed: Laws Broken, White House Used NEA to Ramrod Obama’s Agenda, ACORN Offshoot “United We Serve” Org Involved, and More and Townhall Tyranny in Virginia: Obama-Joker Poster Forbidden at Rally, “Ain’t America No More” (video)
Capitalism Magazine: The “Crony” in Russian “Capitalism” is Socialism
VotingFemale Speaks!: ABC: Global Warming to Blame for Islamic Terrorism

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