Thought Crimes are here now with the police state.

Sounds like it's time to leave the UK.  (and the EU in general.)

I know that people like Alex Jones and others like to complain about how much of a "police state" America has become, but maybe he, and others, need a good basis of comparison.  And the UK would be it.   I'm not saying we don't have our issues here................but we still have an open and free internet here, unlike China, and we're still free to openly question pretty much anything we want.  If we want to stand up and say the holocaust never happened, or question some aspect of it, we can.  At best, people will laugh at you.  But you won't go to jail.   Ernst Zundel in Canada can't say the same.  Or anybody in the UK/EU.  !

"V For Vendetta" is coming out next month, a movie based in the UK, about rising up against a tyranical fascist government.  "People should not be afraid of their governments...governments should be afraid of their people."  Interesting timing of it all, considering it was originally supposed to come out last November, but was bumped back four months.   Everything happens exactly when it's supposed to happen I guess....

Props go out to Mech for digging this bad boy up:

Latest Airline Terror Threat: People Who Read Books
Rocker Rollins reported for thought crime

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | February 17 2006

The latest example of airline security gone insane is provided by rock star and stand-up comedian Henry Rollins, who was recently reported to the Australian government for reading a book on an aeroplane.

The Australian Daily Telegraph reports,

"US rocker and writer Henry Rollins was reported to the National Security hotline during his recent Australian tour because of a book he was reading on flight to Brisbane."

"A furious Rollins was informed he was "nominated as a possible threat" for reading Jihad: The Rise Of Militant Islam In Central Asia."

"The incident happened on a flight from Auckland on the recent Big Day Out tour."

Rollins (pictured above) then received a letter from the Australian government warning him not to read such books in future. His response was to post the letter on his website and tell the Australian government to "go f***k themselves."

Henry's site:

http://21361.com/

Some of henry's work:

http://21361.com/site_2004/watch_listen.html

http://21361.com/site_2004/main_dispatches.html

DISPATCHES

#30. 01-30-06 Melbourne Australia: 2139 hrs. I just got a letter from a nice woman who told me the man I sat next to on the flight from Auckland to Goldcoast Australia reported me to the Australian Government because of the book I was reading.

“I hope this finds you before you leave Australia as I think its something that won’t surprise you but might give you a smile when you are sitting in a hotel room. I work in one of those Government areas that deals with anti terrorism matters. A fine service is provided but unfortunately we get to read a lot of things submitted by lunatics. The Australian Government set up the National Security Hotline to report terrorists.
The person who sat next to you on the flight from New Zealand does not agree with your politics or choice of reading and so nominated you as a possible threat. As they were too cowardly or stupid to leave their details I can’t call them to discuss their idiocy with them.”

Interesting that he and I exchanged nothing but polite hellos. I was reading Ahmed Rashid’s book Jihad: The Rise Of Militant Islam In Central Asia. He’s a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and the book is on the Yale University Press. Didn’t Bush drink beer at Yale? Didn’t he not seem to learn much at Yale?
Of course I wrote the nice lady back.

“I was reading a book called Jihad by Ahmed Rashid which is a history of Central Asia. I didn't speak to the man next to me past how do you do. I think Ahmed Rashid is published by Yale University Press. Bush's alma mater. Please tell your government and everyone in your office to go f*ck themselves. Tell them twice. If your boss is looking for something to do, you can tell him I suggest he go f*ck himself. Baghdad's safer than my hometown and your PM is a sissy. You have a nice night.”

I really don’t take kindly to that kind of shit. I like it though. Love it. Confrontation. Tension. Adversarial relationships. More please. It’s the only time it gets real.

Good for Henry. There's something about that guy that makes it hard not to like him.

I was appalled that this historian was actually served with jail time. I understand that countries like Austria feel they must be extremely vigilant when it comes to matters pertaining to the Holocaust, but to jail someone because of his ideas is insane. Whether I agree with this fellow is irrelevant. It's totally wrong to punish him for his thoughts. He may be a racist as many have accused, I really don't know, but he still has the right to question whatever he chooses, including the Holocaust.

On the theme of thoughtcrimes:

A TV news item ran in Salt Lake City yesterday about a woman sex offender, 31 years old, who was convicted of having sex with a minor (a 15-year-old boy) two years ago.

Somehow somebody discovered that this sex offender has a myspace.com blog and called up the officials about it.  The prosecutor from her case is pushing the judge to stop the woman from having access to an internet blog.

The blog was checked out and she was NOT in communication with minors or using it to pick up young boys, and yet a slew of people are outraged about it and there was talk (in the news story) of passing a law to cut off sex offenders internet privileges.

I was listening to the Mj Morning show about a week ago on the radio. Well the subject of RFID tags was brought up. One of the guys mentions how this is a pre-text for a 1984 scenario; Mj and the rest of the people immediately begin criticizing this guy. Began saying things like "DO YOU even know who wrote 1984!? Oh you don't well LOL at YOU"