Ah:) the term over here that we're calling it is the 'Nanny State' mainly because they're seeming to restrict the activities of the voting population in the way a nanny restricts the activities of a 2 or 3 year old.
The thinking behind some of it is sound, but the way they're going about it isn't.
Current Goverment is doing well....... at making themselves unpopular
I just get really, really fed up with people saying that we are 'turning into a police state!' Sorry, but during every major war the U.S. has been in, various civil rights have been suspended and returned later. That's just wartime. East Germany was a police state. The Soviet Union was a police state. North Korea is a police state. China is a police state. The United States is not even vaguely close.
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Date: 2004-09-03 02:04 am (UTC)The thinking behind some of it is sound, but the way they're going about it isn't.
Current Goverment is doing well....... at making themselves unpopular
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Date: 2004-09-03 11:55 am (UTC)