Blunkett is dangerous. Let's not forget these ideas of his have all been tried before. He is the man that came up with the ideas of ID cards, pseudo policeman who have only the power to observe and report, then there was the "citizenship test", the oaths of allegiance for anyone wanting to belong, the tanks at Heathrow, internment without trial and without notification of charge, 'anti-social behaviour orders' targeted on the undeserving poor in the name of the deserving poor, increasingly frantic attempts (in the face of sturdy judicial opposition) to reduce asylum-seekers to destitution, the death by a thousand cuts of the presumption of innocence and trial by jury ~ the list goes on and on.
I am reminded of a famous piece by Pastor Martin Niemoller
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
I really do not jest when I say Blunkett is dangerous. He would, of course, deny any thoughts of "National Socialism" but I for one would not believe him.
