Government overreach

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“The [British] state is now persecuting British citizens and locking them up for daring to say that the state can be wrong.”
Craig Murray (October 2024)  [1]

Government overreach has emerged as a common theme in the 2020s.

Overuse of plastic words

"Terrorism"

"Terrorism", since the 1979 Jerusalem conference was internationally promoted as a crimen exceptum – a crime so exceptional that the established rules of justice need not be applied to it. Formerly restricted to violent crimes such as bombing, the temptation by governments to pass vaguely worded laws and then push the envelope proved irresistible, to the point where it is being applied to crime that in Orwell's 1984 were termed "wrongthink".


Selected examples

1990s

2020s


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