{"id":8324,"date":"2015-05-21T06:37:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T11:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2015-05-21T06:37:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T11:37:32","slug":"you-may-no-longer-think-wrong-thoughts-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8324","title":{"rendered":"You May No Longer Think Wrong Thoughts, Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=37550\" target=\"_blank\">You May No Longer Think Wrong Thoughts, Citizen<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Shortly after the election victory that probably surprised no-one more than himself, David Cameron launched into explaining to the hoi-polloi what further transmogrification of the State is in store now that he\u2019s got a free hand. He inter alia elated the audience with the following zinger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFor too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone. It\u2019s often meant we have stood neutral between different values. And that\u2019s helped foster a narrative of extremism and grievance. This government will conclusively turn the page on this failed approach.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, dear citizen, mafia uncle State will no longer leave you alone if you merely \u201cobey the law\u201d. Your \u201cnarratives of grievance\u201d henceforth won\u2019t be tolerated anymore!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37555 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2015\/05\/sun-shine.jpeg\" alt=\"sun shine\" width=\"620\" height=\"424\" \/>As one reader remarked, all that\u2019s missing now is Frau Bluecher making her entrance \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon by Steve Bell<\/p>\n<p>As the Guardian reports, this means that now that the Lib Dems will no longer be able to veto Cameron\u2019s more outlandish ideas, he intends to keep us all safe by fighting terrorism by means of an Orwellian thought police.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u201cA counter-terrorism bill including plans for extremism disruption orders designed to restrict those trying to radicalize young people is to be included in the Queen\u2019s speech, David Cameron will tell the national security council on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe orders, the product of an extremism task force set up by the prime minister, were proposed during the last parliament in March, but were largely vetoed by the Liberal Democrats on the grounds of free speech. They were subsequently revived in the Conservative manifesto.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You May No Longer Think Wrong Thoughts, Citizen Shortly after the election victory that probably surprised no-one more than himself, David Cameron launched into explaining to the hoi-polloi what further transmogrification of the State is in store now that he\u2019s got a free hand. He inter alia elated the audience with the following zinger: \u201cFor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1195,1561,3745,635,1869,1309,765,820,2080],"class_list":["post-8324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-david-cameron","tag-extremism","tag-law","tag-police-state","tag-pre-crime","tag-state","tag-surveillance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8325,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions\/8325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}