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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."
Maybe it's this.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
And like Americans and frogs ... they just sit there in that pan of slowly heating water...
Look, I don't know where you get your french stereotypes, but I've never heard of one sitting in a tub of hot water.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Car Movements?
What, you're supposed to keep track every time you shit in your car over there?
How insane is that?
This would be the time to declare independence. Seems Whitehall and Parliament DO need to be kicked in the teeth once every 200 years.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Citizen-Subject Ruvim889102
you are hereby charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for conspiring to commit an act of terrorism.
However we at the Anti-Terrorist Department (Motto: "remember, if they're not for you they're against you") had a good laugh at your suggestion of using a train as the delivery method, as it would probably end up derailed on a set of poorly-maintained points in the wrong kind of snow, hence foiling your devious plan. So we'll be letting you off with a warning this time, son.
(Tip from Constable Noggins: "next time think about barrels", he says).
Great! I bag my limit on policemen and federal agents on the first day the season opens.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
I int illiberat, u roten trole. *cough*
We (Europe) declare to give away the UK to the US for it is much more similar to the US than it is to Europe. We would greatly appreciate it if you could also relocate the UK physically away from the continent a.k.a. Europe. Thank you. We apologize for it to not having much Oil at all but at least they constitute good American citizens, willing to give away essential freedoms for a false sense of security any minute, as well as they do support wars for the sole reason of others possessing Oil.
You do realize you're one of us, right?
"the Americans", "their southern border"...
Or are you also one of those people who refers to themselves in the 3rd person?