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Originally Posted by dave  Face, bovvered? 
If it happens, it happens, we will either deal with it and get used to it. Or we'll have to take up different hobbies/jobs. |
I can see where youre coming from Dave, but it does wind me a up a little that as a nation we are so good at ignoring problems like this and hoping they'll go away, or just shamefaced accepting it like naughty schoolboys.
Weve all been guilty of letting the ban it merchants (of all political parties) interfere with life for the last few decades, and erode our civil liberties bit by bit until weve forgotten what we have lost; and just allowed more and more things to be banned with little effect on the actual problem the ban was supposed to address in the first place!
I cant pretend to put it any better than a much more learned chap who put a similar issue very succinctly with a paraphrase of Martin Niemoller that went something like this:
'They came first for the pistol shooters, I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a shooter;
Then they came for the hunters with hounds, I didn’t speak up because I dont hunt;
Then they came for the 4x4 drivers, I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an offroader;
And then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up'
But I think we all know how this is going to pan out; HMG propose an extreme solution, some time after we react, then HMG offers a less stringent 'compromise'; in fact its probably the system they wanted to introduce in the first place, but a bit of public poker makes everyone accept it with a sigh of relief; cynical, yes probably..you decide
