An interesting libertarian take on Tony Blair’s “war against extremism”…

The War on Our Own Citizens continues. More precisely, Britain’s war on its own citizens has just been initiated. In an earlier treatise, I described the devastating effect that the Western governments’ reactions to the July 7, 2005, London terror attacks had on the liberty and privacy of air travelers. But the misdirected, detrimental effects of domestic government “security” policies can be far more insidious, aiming at the very intellectual core of what it means to live in a free, Western nation historically based on individualist premises. One of Tony Blair’s new policies entails the possibility of targeting not terrorists, nor even violent criminals, but anybody whose views diverge from the “center” or the “mainstream.” Our most sacred liberties are in danger, because a scapegoat has taken the blame for terror activities, and is now bearing the consequences of retaliation. This scapegoat is “extremism.”

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