Modified Freedom

The Minister of Internal Security has said that Britain is "in the most sustained period of severe threat since the end of World War II". Then, as now, the country was in the grip of an imperialistic, egomaniacal prime minister whose contact with reality was intermittent at best, who wasted the lives of British troops in futile and misconceived military campaigns, and who was a fervent believer in the forcible tuition of global values to uncivilised tribes.

Like his great contemporary, Churchill was also a social Darwinist, and like Hitler he was not averse to helping evolution along with programmes of forced eugenics and concentration camps if evolution seemed a bit slow off the mark. Continuing this noble tradition, the Minister of Unfitness for Purpose has called for a "Darwinian" approach to the law. The Minister, you see, is "in a very difficult position" because our antediluvian legal system requires "sufficiently cogent admissible evidence for a criminal trial" and does not even permit him to deport or detain people at his own personal convenience.

As the Minister for Internment proclaims, presumably on the evidence of his own meteoric career: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Thus, on the social level, it is the liars, sycophants, cowards and sneaks who prosper, since courageous and outspoken people of principle will inevitably stumble when a change takes place to which they object. Instead of adapting to, let alone profiting by, the new circumstances, they will end up as social misfits like Brian Haw or convicted criminals like Maya Evans, pitied and despised by the population at large and without further hope of a ministerial career.

Regarding our legal system, which has proved so maladaptive as to get in his way, the Minister for House Arrest profundified that "Sometimes we may have to modify some of our own freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their misuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms." Those freedoms which the Government has already modified - "freedom from detention, forced labour, torture and punishment without trial" - were formulated in the wake of state fascism, and have not been fought for over centuries by mobs of evil left-wingers as was previously thought. These freedoms are now under threat from "fascist individuals". Unlike the Minister for Behavioural Socialisation, these individuals believe in detention without trial, chain gangs, extra-legal punishments and obtaining evidence by torture. They also "oppose our fundamental values", such as adapting to change rather than wasting time trying to be strong or intelligent.

Well, more fool them. From the Darwinist perspective, you see, house arrest and deportation at the Minister's whim are just necessary modifications of the freedom to travel; just as human beings themselves are merely land-dwelling, sexually reproducing, multicellular amoebae.