Apparently a lot of conservatives are going apeshit over V for Vendetta. Some are even going ballistic because they see it as an attack on that poor fascist Tony Blair. Yes, I called Blair a fascist. He has openly said that he doesn't believe in due process of law. The surveillance regime that he has sought since the push for the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which actually makes it a crime to not hand over one's encryption keys among other things, is the most extreme in the Western world today. Not only that, but the police increasingly harass people there for holding politically incorrect views. Blair has lead the way on attacks against freedom of speech and his government has subjected gun owners to kangaroo courts. Oh, and he's a member of the Fabian Society, a movement dedicated to the spread of socialism.

It is very telling to me that so many conservatives feel pity for the destruction of a symbol of a national government, simply because of its age, and feel very defensive about a suggestion that Tony Blair is a very bad leader. Anyone who finds common cause with Tony Blair cannot be considered a rightist because the man stands for almost everything that the right is supposed to be opposed to. He is anti-civil liberties in a way that if Bush is (not saying he is), he could never admit without giving the Democrats fertile grounds for impeaching him. He is also even more of an open traitor to Britain with his attempts to push European Unionization on the British people.

Have conservatives gotten so sick of Bush that they are now pining for the days of Slick Willy? Why sympathize with the Blair government? It was, and is, the British kissing cousin of the Clinton Administration. Don't let his funny accent fool you, Blair may be a friend of the United States now, but what he represents is pure poison.