I Once Dreamed of Liberty (Op/Ed), page 3

I am not American, I am British, but I view from afar America's troubles, over it's foreign policy over the years, and it's domestic policy now as implemented by it's government, implementing ultimate control through fear, as was seen in Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four in what Goldstein's role was in Big Brother's rule.

I want Americans to know, those of you that have awoken, or have always been awake to what is the realities of the implementation of a State ruled by fear, and corporatism and NeoCon imperial expansion, that the people of the UK who are awake, are alongside you in your struggle for better governance.

Tis true, we have not known proper democracy, that which Monarchy denies, but the monarchy has never in modern times been a threat to our outstanding liberties as has this government we have here, of Blairite proportions, inheritor of Thatcherism, where we have seen a woman who stood calmy by a War Memorial in London and with calmness read out the names of the British soldiers who have been killed in Iraq in an act of rememberance, before finding herself arrested and carted away in a police van under anti terror laws, and saw last year the case of Wolfgang, in his eighties, a Holocaust survivor, a life long Labour Party Supporter, who sat in the audience at a Labour Party Conference, who for daring to say 'Rubbish' when Jack Straw, then UK Foreign Secretary talked of the Iraq War, was wrestled and grabbed from his seat and rough handled out of the conference by hired thugs and then arrested under Anti Terror Laws.

We have also seen actors returning from winning awards in Germany for their role in a film dramatising the imprisonment of British citizens at Guantanamo Bay, only to be briefly detained by police and asked sinisterly if they planned on "making any more 'political' films"

The government is pushing hard still for ID Cards, that will take down biometric details, personal details et al, making you a number, not a person, to be compiled on a database at the hands of a power mad government.

The government want to make ID Cards compulsory upon getting or renewing a passport. No ID Card, you can't leave the country.

The Police arrest people on political grounds under anti terror laws while real criminals are not bothered with.

Oh, how I think of my country and it's brave men and women, my Grandfathers and Grandmother and my other relations among them, their generation, took up arms and hands to fight the black and stinking giant hand of Nazism, how our Britain shone, how we fought against what was wrong, how we stood alone in 1940, how my Grandfather helped in liberating a concentration camp, how we fought that which enslaved, imprisoned and which waged war on many peoples.

My Grandmother in her 80's writing her protest to a newspaper against the War On Iraq because she, as a Blitz survivor, knew what it was like.

Now the fight is from within, upon which rests upon us the fight against the corrupted, power hungry, control freak government, using fear to accept liberties lost, a government which ignores the people's demands.

Our country, becoming the poodle of The White House via Blair, the 51st state, saying to the NeoCons demands of 'Jump" with "How high" instead of "Your first"

How the UK follows the US like a obediant unquestioning dog, when the US Administration foreign policy and those administrations preceding is WRONG, Bush being the greatest threat to World Peace.

I lament what the UK has become. Instead of becoming peaceful and democratic after the demise of The British Empire, we have been subject to Big Brother rule and have seen our government willing, colloborative and accountable to the new Empire.

You are not alone Americans, we the British are alongside you, as are all those all over the world fighting for justice and freedom.

Let not The Statue Of Liberty become a hollow statue.

Let not the weights of Justice become weighed against us.

Let your Eagle soar, and we shall let our Lion roar alongside you.