AN ORDINARY DAY ?LET HISTORY DECIDE

Today a most important matter is being decided,something that will affect every man ,woman and child in this country and yet there is no sense of history being changed. For longer than the Thames has flowed past the seat of government the  people of this country have fought for , and after centuries of suffering won the the battle for what is today being allowed to be filched from them without a whimper.

I am of course referring to the matter of free speech and the last ditch attempt by the press to prevent Parliament from thrusting this rights of British citizens back hundreds of years.

I promise you that I am not being unnecessarily dramatic ,every word is the plain dreadful truth!

For years successive governments have attempted to curb the press, why, because they are uncomfortable with the truth or more to the point they are uncomfortable with the people being told the, truth.

Remember Tony Blair’s insistence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, remember how desperately he attempted to persuade parliament that we should attack Iraq. Remember how finally he told the house that those weapons could be deployed at any time and could hit targets in the UK in minutes. With that speech he persuaded the members to support his wishes and many voted in his favour on the strength of that statement. Tony Blair lied!

Within hours of that vote the first bombs landed on Iraqi soil and it was obvious that Blair and Bush had already made the decision to attack. Imagine what would have happened if Tony Blair had been unable to sway the vote to suit his urgent need of approval for the greatest mistake in modern history.

The discovery that The P.M had not been truthful was uncovered by the media who received information from a certain Dr Kelly that the information given at that vitals debate had been “sexed up” it was erroneous, incorrect, let us be frank ,it was an out right lie.

The BBC broad cast this information and as a result Tony Blair instigated a witch hunt which caused the controller of the BBC Greg Dyke to be fired, Piers Morgan ,whose newspaper ran the story was also sacked and Dr Kelly , an honest honourable man paid for Mr Blair’s displeasure with his life.

More recently the media uncovered,and is still uncovering the fraudulent expenses claims of members of Parliament, they uncovered and continue to uncover the perfidious behaviour of our banks. All of this we have a right to know and that knowledge has made the Government uncomfortable .

What is happening today is pay back, payback for making those fraudulent liars who form pour government give up their illegal perks.

Imagine that this bill had been passed then that scandal broke,how much of it would we have been allowed to know. When the banks collapsed how much of the truth of the matter would we have been told. You need to ask yourselves that question and it has to be now.

I piece of writing such as this could well be against the law this time tomorrow because quite suddenly telling the truth had become a crime, it could also become dangerous.

This bill will not simply affect the media, it will rob every citizen of the freedom to express his beliefs,weather right or wrong. We have a perfectly;y good legal system to deal with slander and liable and that should be enough.

B y morning we may well be living in a country no no better in the matter of free speech that Iraq whose president we removed for this offence among others. Quite a though isn't it.