Date: 2006-04-25 03:53 pm (UTC)
I agree the seeds have been there a long time. Britain is a very authoritarian country by instinct. What was new in Clarke's spiel, I think, was his attempt to define (or at least claim) a "new" class of human rights and somehow, in a Fukayamaesque way to link that to the "Triumph of Democracy". The rhetoric is really quite odd.
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