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No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance
UpnAtom writes "People who refuse to give up their bank records, tax records & details of any benefits they've claimed, and the records of their car movements for the last year, or refuse to submit to an interrogation on whether they are the same person that this mountain of data belongs to — will be denied passports from March 26th. The Blair government has already admitted that this and other data will be cross-linked so that the Home Office and other officials can spy on the everyday lives of innocent Britons. Britons were already the most spied upon nation in Western Europe — more so even than Sweden. Data-mining through this unprecedented level of mass-surveillance allows any future British government to leapfrog even countries like China and North Korea."
I recognized the Mussolini reference. I apologize for not making the facetiousness of my original post more apparent.
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The bad teeth championship just isn't what it used to be.
the UK are players again...
That is why the populace needs guns. If a govmnt refuses to listen to its people, revolution is the only solution.
The government can't save you.
... to send a train-load of TNT to the Parlament Building yet?
are the new Jews? Really? Doesn't it make some difference that the Islamists are actually engaged in varieties of evil such as the Nazis falsely accused the Jews of? Sometimes a people can deserve to be clamped down on - although of course never to the extent of the ovens. The trick for free societies to survive is to learn how to do that relatively fairly, and without compromising the freedoms and rights of sectors of the population whose culture is civilized enough not to tolerate suicide bombers and broad-scale terror attacks.
Those who think the Islamists are just bumbling fools weren't in NYC as I was on 9/11. Those who think all groups must be treated alike or else we're "like the Nazis" are going to end up being a prime cause of the sacrifice of the freedom of all of us. And that's the problem in Britain: To be "fair" about tracking the details of the lives of the dangerous part of the population, they're going ahead and doing the same thing to many millions of others who are no threat at all. This sort of "fairness" is itself deeply complicit in the rise of neofascism.
"with their freedom lost all virtue lose" - Milton