A New Chapter: Fighting Tyranny with Tryanny

In a speech to the IPPR Gordon Brown today called for a "new chapter" in Britain's history that would protect both citizens' security and individual rights.

In a nutshell the tyrannical power of Muslim terrorism needs to be tackled with oppressive, authoritarian tyrannical impositions on the civil liberties of the British people. 42 days detention without charge is necessary to combat Muslim terrorism, and the imposition of a DNA database, ID cards and surveillance techniques will protect us all and help eliminate you from their enquiries.

Civil liberties are freedoms that protect the individual from the state. Gordon Brown's idea of protecting of civil liberties is diametrically opposed to individualism. He is a collectivist who thinks he can save us from individuals by removing individual rights. Collectivism, as I mentioned earlier, is a defining trait of a fascist.

Gordon did offer one crumb of comfort to those of us concerned at his erosion of civil liberties:

I will never, neither here nor in any other area, seek to question the right of the judges to make decisions in individual cases, or try to undermine the role of the independent judiciary which has done so much over the centuries to safeguard British values.

Great. I'll sleep well tonight knowing Gordon isn't going to abolish our independent judiciary. Good of him to make that clear. However, Gordon Brown has already undermined our independent judiciary by signing the Lisbon Treaty, making British laws and British judgements subordinate to those of the European Union.

David Davis for Freedom is launched today, news from which will be syndicated on this blog.