Here's the thing / Guardian, 6 July 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/06/civilliberties?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews
Paul Kingsnorth
"No one ever asked me to sign the social contract. I don't remember being presented with a dotted line and a pen. Yet here I am, subject to the will of a state whose checks and balances are increasingly unchecked and unbalanced, and whose "democratic" machinery is so clogged with patronage and power that my chances of influencing it are close to zero."