Harriet Harman and the Hooded Claw

On Thursday night's edition of the BBC's Question Time, Harriet Harman (whose role in the Cabinet now eludes me and I'm too lazy to look up) advocated banning youths in certain areas from wearing hoodies on the basis that this intimidated people. This should be coupled with Community Support Officers regularly questioning groups wearing the offending articles.
Leaving aside Harman's complete inability to think about why people feel intimidated or the root causes of youth crime, her comments illustrate just how morally corrupt this government has become. For New Labour it is acceptable for police to stop people on the basis of how they look and the introduction of ID cards will justify reasons to do so; although "feral youths" as Boris Johnson calls them won't carry ID cards, just ASBOs.
This moral corruption of civil liberties is in stark evidence in other ministers too. Leaving aside David Blunkett -- who is even more barking than his dog and no less obedient to the Blairite cause -- let us take the secretary of state for Wales and now Northern Ireland. Peter Hain was in his youth an ardent opponent of apartheid, leading protests against the South African rugby tour to the UK in the 60s. Now he votes in favour of curtailing rights of protest and the basic civil liberties that allowed him to bring the plight of the South African majority to the attention of the British public and launch his own political career.
We have seen with New Labour just how much power corrupts. Having pledged free education, a reformed electoral system, a commitment to public transport and the environment, to protect the National Health Service, here is a government that has reneged on its commitment to us in favour of support from lobbyists in the food (Nestlé, McDonald's), petrochemical (BP, Unilever), financial (Phoenix), educational (Atkins), transport (Jarvis) sectors, including a core group of other sponsors looking for favours. We have been disenfranchised by their slide into self-interest.
But if we know that power corrupts, is the only solution not letting anyone have it? Is the only way to achieve independence through anarchy?