Archive for 'Corruption' Category
Proposing, Veiling and Prosecuting Thoughtcrime
20 January 2009In George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four the government attempts to control not only the speech and actions, but also the thoughts of its subjects, labelling disapproved thoughts with the term thoughtcrime or, in Newspeak, “crimethink”. In the book, Winston Smith, the main character, writes in his diary: “Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is […]
PNVD Harassed By Authorities At Peaceful Protest
14 October 2008Members of the PNVD, a Dutch political party which supports the reform of legislative and social attitudes towards child sexuality and paedophilia, were recently harassed during a protest against EU data retention laws.
Four members of the party peacefully joined the protest in The Hague (Holland) on October 11, however they were confronted by an […]
Politics of an Obscene Character
29 May 2008The suitably Orwellian-sounding Ministry of Justice has announced that it is to criminalise the possession of “all images of child sexual abuse, including drawings and computer-generated images”.
When the Home Office originally outlined their plans to criminalise such cartoons, I urged people to send a reply to the consultation and many people did voice their concerns. […]