Profiting out of Misery: Spy drones targeting the UK population

What a miserable load of stories for the start of the weekend. Where to start going over the despair?

We could comment on the press plastering news of the heightened terror warning inescapably in our faces. But what is there to say on that topic?

Maybe our opinion is skewed by living in London where we seem to be eternally on alert - and eternally resilient - but what is the point of scaring people senseless by plastering such an apparent situation all over the headlines? What do the Government imagine we, the people will do differently... bar some being far more nervous or scared?

And doesn't the latter accomplish the job of any would-be fruitcake, anyway?

[Update: Daily Mail readers are furious after the newspaper reports why we've probably had this scare story foisted upon us...]

So, with that story covered, we could talk about ClimateGate with the latest concerning Pachauri and the IPCC's 'man made global warming' tyranny. Having already had to humiliatingly admit to the world that claims about Himalayan glaciers were bogus, The Times reports that he now admits that "there may have been other errors in the same section of the report" as the glacier claim.

Talk about dodgy dossiers.

We could talk about the fact that fifty people may well be detained at Guantanamo Bay without trial... indefinitely. No, not a conspiracy theory. It's in the Daily Telegraph, if you'd care to take a read.

So, there you go. The 'change' candidate Obama is - actually - George W. Bush-Continued.

But even that pales into insignificance when compared to a report in The Guardian.

A couple of years ago, we heard fantastical claims from people we thought were kooky and eccentric about spy drones from the battlefield being deployed in Western nations to spy on the population from the sky.

But it's really happening. To eradicate serious crimes such as... fly tipping.

And who, pray tell, is first in line to sign up to this hell of constant surveillance?

You guessed it... we in Britain.

We're not making this up. They actually do plan to use spy drones to monitor the British population.

Though, if you were to tell us we'd imagined the story we just read on The Guardian, we'd be mightily relieved. However, we've pinched ourselves really hard and, unfortunately, we are awake and not dreaming. It is real.

It is now utterly relentless, the tyranny we're sinking under, and people are now getting to be quite outraged. Read the comments on The Guardian.

If this latest line of tyranny - like something from a bizarre futuristic Hollywood movie - has your blood raging, then you're quite normal.

Even The Guardian seem to appreciate that people are right to be really annoyed that the Government is going too far now.

Hope The Guardian's contributor 'robbo100' doesn't mind us quoting his post over there, but as (presumably) he says: "Enough is enough. We've got to tell these fuckers, in no uncertain terms, to fuck off."

Quite. And this blog makes no apologies for following The Guardian's example and not censoring the f-word. This really is time to tell them to - quite frankly - "fuck off".

And it's an arms manufacturer supplying the Government with this new tool of tyranny. Yeah, another weapon being deployed by the Labour Government against we, the British people.

One can't help but wonder what our spiritual leader - Diana, Princess of Wales - might have said about it all. She, of course, took on the arms industry over anti-personnel landmines. But, of course, Diana's very essence was all about love, compassion and humanity. No wonder she made enemies. Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum...

For those who recognise the wording in this blog post's title - and it is a reference to Diana - we can only round this post off with the now growing more and more famous clip of Eisenhower's speech from 1961.