Just received this comment from Jimmy Kaplowitz over in the US: “yuck, your country continues to turn into Big Brother:
BBC News: Giant database plan ‘Orwellian’”
Hell, yeah. That’s a reason why my support for
the party is so weak at the moment. I’ve been working and writing against this since ST@ND and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which we were told was essential for crime-fighting, but actually helps
gov.uk spy on parents making school place applications.
Currently, I’m telling people
Gov.UK Consults on Forced ISP Snooping: Please Say NO. If anyone has any doubt that the database state will be abused, look at some examples of Labour’s “terrorists” (at least, they had supposedly anti-terror measures used against them) since 2001:-
- Wolfie, an 82-year-old peace-campaigning heckler at a Labour conference
- Indymedia
- a Frenchman in Suffolk who downloaded the Anarchists’ Cookbook
- an Algerian pilot
- the country of Iceland
and that’s ignoring
gov.uk’s frequent data leaks.
Noodles replied: “There’s a quote somewhere that goes along the lines of “If the Tory policy is looking sane compared to what you’re doing, you’re doing it wrong” that’s been applied to the Labour fascist state stuff.”
Our terrorism measures are a joke, with loopholes that gov.uk can drive a truck through. They should be repealed and clearly-limited ones enacted, shouldn’t they?