Not totalitarian - but guilty of creeping authoritarianism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1761318,00.html
Blair has built an entire foreign policy around the kind of glib
historical parallel to which Clarke now takes exception
Simon Jenkins
Wednesday April 26, 2006
The Guardian
Whatever horrors now loom over the home secretary's career, in one
respect he is right. On this page yesterday, Charles Clarke complained
that political language was being debased. He and Tony Blair object to
critics bandying about "lazy and deceitful" words and glib ideological
parallels. They particularly object to being called fascist,
totalitarian, hijackers of democracy and destroyers of the rule of law,
not to mention wanting a police state, a holocaust, a gulag and
apartheid. Clearly, as was said of the antipope John, the more serious
charges have been suppressed.
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