Stalinism

The Serious and Organisted Crime Agency (or Stasi for short) officially came into existence over the weekend. They are directly accountable to the Home Secretary alone and not bound by the conventions of policing. Once you are on their books you will be watched for life much like the secret police (which is what they are) in any totalitarian state.

The BBC is running a Have Your Say on this new force, currently the second highest rated post is this:

Added: Monday, 3 April, 2006, 08:43 GMT 09:43 UK

They'll spend their time hounding individuals who try to demonstrate outside Parliament.

(If youy recall, this was slipped into the Serious Organised Crimes Act and the girl reading out the names of Iraqi war dead was fined £120).

Beware this government - Stalin is just round the corner.

So at least some people understand that Labour is rapidly taking us into a Stalinist police state. Stalinism is back in fashion not just with Labour but in it's home land as well, torturing people into confessing to crimes that they had no part in. Which is what is to be expected since the basic presumption of torture is that the suspect is guilty (even if they are not) so you just have to hurt them until they tell you what you want to hear. A concept with which Labour are quite at home, with having tacitly accepted the use of torture so long as it has been out sourced to somewhere sufficiently far away so that they do not have to listen to the screams.