The Freedom Is In Peril Blog

My friend Piers Caw­ley has star­ted a new blog — Free­dom is in Peril —

Free­dom is in peril, but how do we go about defend­ing it with all our might? It’s easy enough to get angry about the latest depress­ing news story, but how do we trans­mute that anger into some­thing more con­struct­ive. How do we con­vince the “I’ve got noth­ing to hide” crew of the awful­ness of CCTVs and gov­ern­ment mon­it­or­ing of face­book? How do we kick back against the ASBO cul­ture that sees chil­dren as a threat not the future? How do we give our kids the space to become decent adults in the face of cam­eras in classrooms and on every street cornder? How do we rebel politely?

Free­dom is in peril, the site aims to find answers to those ques­tions. I’m not inter­ested in silly peti­tions, the time is not right for fight­ing in the streets. I’m inter­ested in the things we can do loc­ally to reduce the cli­mate of fear that tacitly sup­ports the erosion of liberty.