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UK Government Plans 10-Year Database of Citizens' Travel
moderators_are_w*nke writes "The UK government is planning yet another database to track its citizens, this time keeping track of their movements in and out of the country for ten years. Just like all their other databases, this one 'is essential in the fight against crime, illegal immigration and [of course] terrorism.'" I'd be very surprised if the US is not already doing this, and just not making a point to let anyone know.
...is going straight to jail(the new Morcambe Bay maximum security anti-terror gulag!)Look at all those dodgy Twitter posts - America, Australia, America, Luxembourg - the chap is a one-man axis of evil!
If he's the Walrus then can I be a penguin please?
If you live in Eire or Northern Ireland, near the border, please could you spend a few minutes stepping from one to the other.
Not only will this improve your aerobic fitness, but all your "journeys in and out of the UK" could help overload this stupid system
Reduce, reuse, cycle
>>>We can only hope that the western world, having known freedom, will revolt while they still have enough of that freedom left to effectively do so.
Dear British Cousins,
If this law to track citizens' movement were passed in America, we would exercise our second amendment rights. We would tell our parliamentarians: Real this law or die. Government is there to SERVE the people, not to be a master. Politicians who desire to be masters need to be "fired" by their employers, the People.
A concerned liberty-loving citizen
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Of course, it helps that the recently released veterans do have rifles. A lot of them also know exactly how the US military fights an insurgency.
Badly?
This just in, the Home secretary announces that the database will be hosted on a laptop left on the passenger seat of a car.
Nullius in verba