http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/something_polly_says Comments for "Something Polly says..." en http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/something_polly_says <p>In her defense of the surveillance state (sorry if I've misunderstood but that's what it sounds like!) at <a href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,,1941211,00.html?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=19">CCTV conspiracy mania is a very middle-class disorder</a> there's one little sentence that gives it all away. She says:</p> <blockquote><p><em>There is a sad lack of voices to praise the benign state these days.</em></p></blockquote> <p>Maybe that's because there is no such thing as "the benign state", now or at any point in history that immediately comes to mind.</p> http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/something_polly_says#comments miscellany Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:03:44 +0000 Jock 64 at http://www.jockcoats.org.uk