How Do These People Sleep at Night?

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OK, let's get our appalling Home Secretary out of the way before I'm legally deemed unpatriotic and seditious by this bunch of idiots calling themselves a government, and incarcerated in The Tower; or whatever it is we do with those so deemed, these days. Suella Braverman has outdone herself over the last week or so: branding legitimate peaceful protests about the Israel-Gaza situation as 'hate marches', and branding the homeless as exercising 'lifestyle choices' by living on the streets. As I've said before, I totally fail to understand how she can claim to be an adherent of the Buddhist faith and hold such views. It is beyond me, and to be frank, it is an insult to Buddhists of every school that she should continue to identify as such: her world-view runs contrary to every Buddhist precept I can think of. Shameful. Buddhism, more than any other religion, is, or at least should be, fundamentally egalitarian, non-materialistic, and compassionate. She evinces none of these characteristics in her pronouncements.

As to the impending changes in regulatory definitions of extremism that this shower intend to force down our throats, I think that any right-minded individual should be gravely worried by the tone, vagueness and generality of the intended legislation: it would appear to give the government carte blanche to not only brand anyone that disagrees with it [ couched in the utterly subjective, emotive, and epistemologically redundant language of 'patriotism' ] as extremists, but also to have the absolute legal right and power to silence whatever dissent is being expressed, under threat of extreme legal sanction. This, as history has so sorely evidenced, frankly ad nauseam, is a very dangerous path down which to tread. It worries me greatly that we seem to be sleepwalking towards a moral and political precipice through a fog of unknowing and false information; and it seems quite voluntarily. The full horror of it all will be only too apparent on our waking from the fever-dream, by which time it might well be too late. 

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