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UK Government Wins Villain of the Year
Anonymous Cowpat writes "The BBC is reporting that the UK Government, or rather their six month presidency of the EU, has been awarded the Internet Villain of the Year award by the Internet Service Providers Association for being the driving force behind the new EU data retention laws. These require that ISPs and other telecomms providers keep records of the time\date & recipient of every communication made by their subscribers."
Sweden's Minister of "Justice" has also been pushing for the retention laws.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2005/0
The problem for all 'governments-of-the-day' who enact stupid legislation is that there is always a way around the 'problem'. There is also clandestine high frequency high speed RTTY.
Tony Blair is not a Socialist. His government is more right wing the the Conservative one that preceded it.
Blair and his labor party should serve as a reminder that socialism is not all about fluffy welfare states.
Blair and his Labour party are nothing to do with socialism. The abolition of Clause 4 and granting tax breaks to businessmen (even though it was later revoked - at least our judges have balls) don't sound very socialist to me.
What we essentially have in today's Labour is the old conservative party only slightly less rabid.
The sun news paper rates up there with fox news (as I understand fox news to be) in the US. Fear and Anger. Fear and Anger. Fear And Anger.
Our diversity is our strength
last time i checked you were twenty seven times more likely to be killed by a firearm in the USA than the UK. As i recall that was from nationmaster.com, although columbia was slightly more dangerous, so theres that to be proud of.
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It doesn't matter if you were shot or stabbed, dead is dead. I didn't ask for the total gun related deaths, the total homocides per capita.
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in short:
England ~13 per 100,000
U.S.A. ~6 per 100,000
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Things are much worse than that. We've started locking up innocent people indefinitely, using anti-terrorist laws on Holocaust survivors and have introduced a Hitleresque dictatorship law.
Next on the agenda is the world's most intrusive mass surveillance system and a law to bypass Parliamentary scrutiny.
We are heading towards a police state faster than 1930s Germany and probably less than 0.1% of the population are doing a thing to stop it.
It's scary to see how quickly the defences against fascism which we've evolved over a millenium have been dismantled. Assuming you're a US citizen, defend your Constitution with your life. And stop rendition and Guantanamo, for God's sake.
I have been talking with the House of Lords (our second House) about opposing the ID Cards Bill and although they understand the Orwellian implications, they're scared to oppose it in case Blair abolishes the Lords altogether.