Well first of all we start with bent MPs on the make screwing the system to pay for everything from Duck ponds to Kit Kat bars including a bunch of second homes' Clearly they believed that they could have everything they wanted because the Taxpayerwas always waiting in the wings to pick up the bill. Then we find out that its not surprising that MPs will not be grassed up by the police because many of them are also on the take. Sometimes they were quite obviously in it together particularly if it was anything to do with News International proprietor where there were always rich pickings. Sooner or later this was all going to come out into the light of day and the light never shone brighter than when some of the less bent journos uncovered the way to exploit the grief of parents and dead children by hacking into private phone calls and cellphone messages. Now our so called government is preparing to hand all our private online info into the hands of hackers, ie their own hackers.
We are heading for a system of online control similar to that of China or Iran where the state will always know who you are, where you are, and who you associate with and will eventually be able to control much of your internet activity. Only today, China has clamped down on bloggers and an unknown number of websites. No doubt this info will then find its way into the hands of the marketing man and political manipulators who will know exactly what to do with it. This is a total disgrace in China or Iran and an even greater disgrace when we are talking about the UK especially, coming as it does from those who in opposition always objected to the surveilance society ID cards, etc. It just goes to show how little we can trust politicians of virtually all persuasions. The lib dems now have a virtually unblemished record of blatant hipocrisy over the last couple of years. If the tories believe that this level of paranoia will avert terrorism they are even crazier and more out of touch than we already knew them to be. I would predict more terrorism rather than less. certainly its sending messages which can only help the taliban in a recruiting drive much more than for the coilition. How can it be that at a time when we are all allegedly "in the same boat" ie. badly scrapped for cash at all levels from the disibility claimant right the way up to the government departments, we can suddenly embark on even an intention to spend billions on the surveillance and database state. Thje government is still whinging about the trouble of freedom of information yet seemingly ready to gather even greater amounts of information out all of us, yet at the same time be prepared to clamp down on any info which we might rightly and understandably wish to see. If They do want their bread buttered on both sides, it will only ensure that whichever side it falls on if dropped, the bread will still be completly inedible.
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