by pugzleyca3 » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:36 pm
Oh, my goodness. When I saw this I couldn't believe it. Read for yourself. It seems like whatever the U.S. gets, so does Australia and the UK. And I am seeing other countries start to enact liberty restraining laws in the EU. For those of you I saw talking about NZ, I saw some negative information about terrorist laws somewhere in my long treks weeding through information online and whatever it was threw up a red flag at me regarding NZ. Just thought I'd mention that. Anyone planning on leaving better check out their new digs thoroughly.<br><br>You almost have to wonder what the hell these people are thinking. It's like they stick their toe in the bath, it's too hot. They make several adjustments of the temp (the people's temperment regarding an issue) until ahhh, it's just right. Then they jump right in they try to ram the laws through. It does appear to be incremental what is going on here. Talk about blatant, though. <br><br>And the amount of hiding things in "must pass" spending bills (here in the U.S.) and just using any kind of dirty trick to get their way and when they're caught, there so far has been no real accountability and no punishment on anything they have done and continue to do.<br><br>The real strange thing here is, is the timing. We've got the spy thing going on in the U.S. and everyone is outraged and yes, granted lots of people are sleeping, but not so sleepy as before and there are lots of people worried about being spied upon. And looky here what happens in UK while all this is going on.<br><br>What is going on here? <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/19/ntap19.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/19/ixhome.html">news.telegraph.co.uk/news...xhome.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>'Big Brother' Blair attacked on tapping<br>By George Jones, Political Editor<br>(Filed: 19/01/2006)<br><br>Tony Blair ran into fierce opposition in the Commons yesterday over plans to relax a ban on the tapping of MPs' telephones.<br><br><br><br>The Speaker, Michael Martin, said he was taking the matter "very seriously" and David Winnick, Labour MP for Walsall North, said the ban must not be revoked without a debate and a Commons vote.<br><br>Changes to the 40-year-old convention that MPs are not tapped have been recommended by Sir Swinton Thomas, the commissioner on the interception of communications. New powers to monitor e-mail and other communications were introduced in 2000 as part of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and Sir Swinton has suggested that MPs should be treated like everybody else.<br><br>Surveillance of MPs was banned under the Wilson Doctrine, named after the former prime minister Harold Wilson. It requires the prime minister of the day to tell Parliament if an MP's phone is tapped.<br><br>Outside the Commons, Alex Salmond, the Scottish Nat-ional Party leader, said: "This is a case of Big Brother Blair and MPs on all sides of the House will not have it." <br><br> <p></p><i></i>
