The UK's Total Surveillance

Budenny writes "The Register has a story in its ongoing coverage of the UK ID Card story. This one suggests, with links to a weekend news story, that the Prime Minister in waiting has bought the idea that all electronic transactions in the UK should be linked to a central government/police database. Every cash withdrawal, every credit card purchase, ever loyalty card use ... And that data should flow back from the police database to (eg) a loyalty card use. So, for example, not only would the government know what books you were buying, but the bookstore would also know if you had an outstanding speeding ticket!"

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Re:Terrorists

[arivanov]

And if the terrorists did not exist, some individuals in the government would have invented them.

If MOSSAD did not meddle in the affairs of Palestinian resistance HAMAS would not have been there: http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ZER403A.html . In fact HAMAS wrecks the peace process in the middle east exactly when and where Israel wants it so it will be extremely surprising if they are not on MOSSAD's payroll (the old question who does it benefit comes to mind).

If Bush and Bliar did not provide free advertising, campaining and support to Bin Laden, Laden would have remained a fringe opportunist. Once successfull, but soon dead. Once again, looking at how many items from his agenda Bush pushed blaming on Bin Laden I would be surprised if Bin Laden is not provided with timely information on the current knowledge of his whereabouts (so he can escape in time). Frankly he should have been dead 100 times by now just out of following dialisis gear shipments in the middle east. As long as he is alive there is a scarecrow to use for scaremongering so he will be alive for a long time to go.

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