Posted on 06/15/2012 9:10:44 AM PDT by JerseyanExile
Edited on 06/15/2012 11:11:44 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
British authorities on Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to log details about every Web visit, email, phone call or text message in the U.K.
(Excerpt) Read more at enews.earthlink.net ...
[If you want to glimpse the future, all you have to do is watch the movie V for Vendetta.]
Thanks. I’ll check it out.
Google could be a supplier not a buyer.
Well, there you have it.
The end of Western Civilization as we know it.
They took Orwell’s cautionary tale, and used it as a bloody instruction manual.
Brilliant!
The only way to prevent government from violating the privacy of its citizens is to prevent them from having the means to do so in the first place.
“But in retrospect my parents and Grand-parents were far more free than I am today.”
Very much so.
Do you still have those muskets and are you currently using them?
As a pro-American conservative and ex-military, I will never understand why you thought the Patriot Act was a good thing.
There is widespread, cross-political anger at this.
Many conservatives oppose this.
I expected this from the control freak last govt.
Not this one.
You already have.
The Patriot Act.
In order to sign the Patriot Act 226 years later.
Good move.
Support the Patriot Act?.
If so, tell me why that was not as stupid and appalling as this idiocy?.
Yep, and we had to borrow it back from the Bush administration.
How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."
- George Orwell, 1984
Just the term “Home Office” is so Orwellian.
The most powerful agency of the British Government named as if it were a discount office supply store.
Sounds like my idea for Obama Care. Government employees at all levels should beta test it first.
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