security - draconian measures
WORKERS, JAN 2005 ISSUE
Almost half of the proposed bills in the Queen's Speech in December plot draconian law-and-order measures for the country. Britain may soon have the largest prison population in Europe — all in private hands, of course, following Blunkett and Blair's proposals to extend police powers of arrest, make more courts sit without juries, make sweeping changes to the prison and probation services and introduce compulsory ID cards.
Blair's "war on terror" will be code for further spying and harassment of workers, with the equivalent of the FBI overseeing this attack on civil liberties. Political witch hunts under the guise of attacking terrorists or BNP racists will be extended to communists, socialists and the trade union movement in general — anyone not 100% behind Blair and his warmongering.