Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Surveillance Society: The noose tightens...

Britain continues its fast & accelerating slide into a fascistic police state, similar to the evil communist regimes portrayed so chillingly in many James Bond movies.

Not content with cameras, ID Cards, DNA data-bases, murder of critics, knobbling of juries & courts, etc.. the government now plans to RECORD, TRACK and MONITOR every call, text & email we send, plus every internet page we visit.

Where will it end? It really is time to worry!



The BBC reports...

A private company could be asked to run a huge database containing details of everybody's telephone calls, emails and internet use, it has been reported.
 
The option to tender out the management of the database will be included in a consultation paper to be published next month, according to the Guardian.
The Home Office said police had to keep up with technical advances and there would be wide consultation on the plan.
Critics, however, say it poses a serious threat to civil liberties. 
Former director of public prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald reiterated his opposition to the plan in light of the Guardian's report, dismissing official claims that additional legal assurances would ensure the information is not misused. 

He told the paper: "All history tells us that reassurances like these are worthless in the long run. In the first security crisis the locks would loosen." 
The database, which critics claim would cost up to £12bn, is not intended to record the content of communications, but only the details of internet sites visited and what emails and telephone calls have been made, to whom and at what times. 

Currently the information has to be requested from communications companies and internet service providers, but it is not always readily available. A Home Office spokesman said: "The communications revolution has been rapid in this country and the way in which we collect communications data needs to change so that law enforcement agencies can maintain their ability to tackle serious crime and terrorism. 

"To ensure that we keep up with technological advances we intend to consult widely on proposals in the New Year. "We have been very clear that there are no plans for a database containing the content of emails, texts or conversations."

You'd have to be very, very naive to believe that!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Inter-generational cohesion within the UK

In Europe, the US, Australasia & North Korea (plus almost everywhere else) adults, teens, the elderly & children are positively encouraged to communicate, to socialise, to chat, to learn from each-other & to work with each-other in the interest of mutual self-respect and community cohesion.

This is not just the norm - this is expected, and anyone who isolates themselves from other social groups or generations is considered odd, and out of step with society.

In Britain, however, this is sadly not the case. Adults are discouraged from any form of contact with anyone else, and teens & children are losing touch & becoming isolated from adults, who have become afraid to interact with them. Understanding and respect between generations has collapsed, and society itself is collapsing.

Why has this happened? It's happened because our over-protectionist, insanely politically-correct nanny state has made weaker, narrow-minded people suspicious of everyone - and everything. We all potentially could be perverts - so we are all treated as them. We are all spied on by cameras & neighbors and levels of suspicion are higher than at any time in the most brutal of former police states.

No adult can just be a good person. Nothing can be just for fun. We all must have our motives for everything we do, and those motives must always be dark ones.

Sadly, that's the state of play today. Explains a lot, doesn't it?

Friday, December 19, 2008

Britain - A failing state.

Britain is clearly no longer great. It seems almost patronising to remind readers of that basic, evident and indisputable fact. With out economy falling faster than a cormorant to water, the currency, the once-strong pound set to become virtually worthless, and with community cohesion and integration being both as mythical as a unicorn's footprints, Britain is a failing state.

We hear that taxes are cut to stimulate the economy - but then EVERY economist tells us soon after the next election (surprise!) - VAT may well have to rise to 25%, and income tax will rise to never-before seen levels; with many people likely to be thousands of pounds worse off, with many more entering the poverty zone and unable to afford the essentials.

With successive governments massaging figures and statistics to show and 'prove' whatever they want, British citizens have been repeatedly lied to, mis-led, treated as fools, confused & mentally twisted by governments at least as crooked as a car boot sale at a Mafia convention.

We hear that crime is down - yet more crimes are reported, and fewer are solved. We hear from out beloved Home Secretary, the ever-so-slippy Jacquie Smith, for example that gun & knife crime has fallen dramatically, in a week when 5 teens & young men are slaughtered; only to be told the following day that she was 'mistaken' - and there's actually been a rise. A 'mistake'.. Hmm! How about using the expression 'a blatant lie'? It's what this was!

We hear that there are more jobs than ever before, yet every day we read that thousands more people have been laid off, or made redundant. We then hear that some 90% of advertised vacancies went to non-UK EU workers, who then reduce wages by agreeing to work for peanuts.

Every week, we hear of more and more people released from jail after wrongly serving sentences. So many times, we discover that these people were simply set up by police more incompetent than Inspector Clouseau on laughing gas, but not nearly as funny. We hear of a totally innocent man murdered on a Tube by armed police, who then conspire and lie in court. When their lies are exposed, their Commander receives promotion.

The Coroner, charged with discovering the truth behind this murder, is so corrupt - so leaned on by the govenment - that he actually FORBIDS the Jury from blaming the police, even though this is what they decide is right, and all of the evidence from over 20 witnesses supports this finding. We then read of Colin Stagg - locked away for a horrific murder; on evidence totally conjured up by the police. He's since been released, and the police have been forced to admit their failings, and to apologize for incompetence & lying.

We hear of a DNA database - the perfect vehicle for fitting people up, and something unheard of in any so-called 'democracy'. Even communist Russia and other despot states have never forced innocent citizens to submit their DNA, yet in Britain, EVERY single person who is arrested - or even questioned by the police has their DNA taken - and kept, even if they aren't charged, or are found totally innocent. A recent European Court ruled this to be totally illegal, yet the DNA is still taken, and kept.

We hear of Councils mis-using the Prevention of Terrorism Act to spy on residents suspected of terrible crimes, like over-filling their dustbin, putting their bin bags out on the wrong day, or putting recycling into wrongly-colored sacks. We then hear of massive fines, whilst criminals walk away with slapped wrists and a severe letting off.

Then there's a deep-rooted culture of suspicion which has destroyed everything which was once good about Britain. We are watched and followed 24/7 by cameras, from the moment we leave our homes, as we walk down the street, as we journey to work, as we shop in town and whilst we do our jobs. Britain has more so-called security cameras than any other country, and we are the most watched people. Yet successive governments have admitted they have little impact on crime, and indeed move it to concentrate in other desperate areas.

We are all viewed as criminals - because it's felt that's what we could become. We're all viewed as perverts & pedophiles, because a very small number of weirdos actually are. We can't actually speak to children, we can never be with kids on our own, we can't even take photos in town, just in case. If we do - people are suspicious, and we're under scrutiny. We can't speak our minds - cuz if we do, we'll be breaking some law, or opening ourselves up to action, or suspicion, or other form of institutionalized attack.

Political correctness has grown to monumentous proportions, and Britain & its ways have become the laughing stock of the rest of the world. Weak people have even been fooled into accepting this, thinking political correctness is actually normal, even desirable.

Trust has gone. Too many weak-minded people have been conditioned by our failing society to view everyone, and everything with suspicion. We've become a nation of bullied, controlled automatons, manipulated and monitored by politically-correct spies & quizlings who watch & question our every move, and twist & misinterpret everything.

Britain is becoming a dangerous place to live. We're all in danger of becoming imprisoned in an ever-growing, all powerful police state where words & minds are subjected to exponentially increasing control and censorship.

Yet people are blind, and this path to destruction continues, unabated. Sadly, people will wake up & realize what's happened, but then it will probably be too late.