Look at the massive databases, shared by many that intrude into your lives; the unwanted ID Card subjection; the intrusion into your emails; your lack of free speech; your inability to protest freely; the politicisation of the increasingly oppressive British police; arrest and deportation without examination of the evidence and remember this particular anniversary today. This is especially poignant, as we go to the polls to elect MEPs who have little real power over an unelected, unaccountable European Commission that increasingly runs the detail of our lives. Look at the lessons of history and learn.

See also AFP. "China faces dark memory of Tiananmen"

"The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.