IT'S MAGNA CARTA DAY!

Today is the 793rd anniversary of the day a coalition of concerned citizens "persuaded" Bad King John to put his seal to Magna Carta. He probably would have signed the Great Charter instead of putting his seal to it, but apparently the old tyrant couldn't read and write. Nonetheless, Magna Carta became one of the foundations of parliamentary democracy, establishing the principle that the even head of state is not above the rule of law and is required to respect the rights of the citizenry.

Magna Carta is still law, but unfortunately our current crop of tyrants in business suits seem to think that its only use is as toilet paper. It's not just Gordon Brown and his immediate circle that are the problem, but the intellectual pygmies lower down in the political system who support them no matter how extreme their actions.

One such intellectual pygmy is a tosspot by the name of Luke Akehurst (Labour councilor and Chief Whip of the Hackney Council Labour grouping). Not only does this evil little scumsucker support 42 days imprisonment without trial, but he openly laughs at Magna Carta.

Here's Akehurst expressing a wish to indulge in a bit of Dunblane-style shroud-waving: 'Maybe instead of Labour fielding a candidate in Haltemprice & Howden we should find a Martin Bell type candidate - preferably a recently retired senior police officer, or a survivor or relative of a victim of a terrorist attack, to run under the following 5 word candidate description: “Independent - for detaining terrorism suspects”.'

Or maybe you could try persuading the voters through reasoned argument that locking people up without trial is somehow going to make them safer.

Here's another quote from Akehurst expressing his respect for the document that forms the foundation of all that's good about the British political system: 'I had forgotten that Tories were so quaintly amusing when they get excited. Boundaries of the state… blah … ancient liberties … blah… Magna Carta … blah … more than the Whigs … blah …'

Liberty and the rule of law, yes, a laugh a minute. I wonder where this screwball thinks his legitimacy as a politician comes from?

I'm a bit late blogging about this (I was in Yorkshire yesterday) and he's already drawn attention from better writers than me. Just scanning the comments on his blog is quite entertaining, not to mention encouraging to those of us who still believe in freedom. The best blog entry I've read about the vile statist cretin Akehurst so far is by my fellow Libertarian Party member Dan Vevers . I suggest you go and read it.

Over at the Libertarian Party's new official blog , there was naturally a bit of comment about Akehurst, to which he replied 'Oh, **** you lot.' Clearly a towering intellect.

Of course the statist running dog Akehurst will be forgotten shortly - I doubt that he'll ever be anything more than a petty official - and it seems to me that the mood in this country is finally starting to turn against the wholesale trashing of our liberties that's been going on for over a decade. Every sunrise takes us a day closer to the day when the British police state will be tossed into the rubbish bin of history and the principles behind Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights will be re-asserted.

So tonight raise your glass in honour of Magna Carta - and resolve to do whatever you can to see freedom restored in our country.

 
15.6.08 20:53
 


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