There are now more cameras on Britain’s streets than anywhere else in the world. Police have acquired powers to detain people for weeks without charge, phone lines are allowed to be tapped, internet and email records can be hacked, bank and medical information can now be reviled without consent, and soon we will all be forced to carry ID cards full of our personnel information. In addition there are plans to have sat navigation in every car in Britain to monitor exactly where and when we have been. I live in London and to use any public transport we will all have to use an oyster card, this also monitors exactly where and when we have travelled. I understand the authorities need to tackle crime but are we giving up our basic freedoms to protect our way of life? I appreciate we need to do all we can to tackle terrorism but are the authorities taking advantage of the current climate of fear; this didn’t happen during the IRA’s campaign of attacks.
Have the authorities acquired too much power in recent years?
There are now more cameras on Britain’s streets than anywhere else in the world. Police have acquired powers to detain people for weeks without charge, phone lines are allowed to be tapped, internet and email records can be hacked, bank and medical information can now be reviled without consent, and soon we will all be forced to carry ID cards full of our personnel information. In addition there are plans to have sat navigation in every car in Britain to monitor exactly where and when we have been. I live in London and to use any public transport we will all have to use an oyster card, this also monitors exactly where and when we have travelled. I understand the authorities need to tackle crime but are we giving up our basic freedoms to protect our way of life? I appreciate we need to do all we can to tackle terrorism but are the authorities taking advantage of the current climate of fear; this didn’t happen during the IRA’s campaign of attacks.
June 12th, 2009
Both major political parties have contributed to this mess. It is time for a change to the Libertarian Party. The party of principle. The party for the U.S. Constitution.
June 14th, 2009
way too much, i dont like conspiracy stories they can do your head in but the theory of one world government is getting less and less conspiracy and more factual every year.
we are being herded like mindless sheep into a total security controlled state and we just shrug it off and accept it.
its frightening how the state has made us like goldfish in a bowl, the faceless money people behind governments use whatever means to further their twisted agenda and personal freedom and liberty is fast dissapearing.
people will as has been proven, put up with almost anything foisted upon them in the name of national defense, americans are really being hammered now as well, by the bush administration.