Cory Doctorow gives the point of view of an immigrant to the UK on the encroaching police state.
I, like many in the UK, have a number of friends who are immigrants. Hell, my great, great grandfather was a Ukrainian Jew and goodness what others have added something so my mongrel mix. Despite this, the immigrants are the easy targets. They are the ‘them’ to our ‘us’. They are incomers, newbies, auslanders and they are fair game. Surely it’s not the friendly Kiwi chap in the office or the pretty Brazilian waitress at the local greasy spoon that this will affect? After all, it’s the scary criminals, the terrorists that we are after. What reasonable person wouldn’t want them tagged and monitored?
This is why the immigrants are such a clever target for the statists and totalitarians who want to control our every action. For the likes of Jacqui Smith this is a sensible strategy, to creep up on us and steal our liberties whilst we are distracted by reality TV and financial chaos. By raising our fear Smith and her ilk will trick us into giving up freedom and democracy.
This can not be allowed to happen. Please, give your support to no2id and the Open Rights Group. Write to your MP and let him/her know your views. Do not sleepwalk into this unmaking of Britain.
