🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 11:58:07 -0500, "Steve Henderson"
<etaoinsh@keytech.com> wrote:

>"Verne" <Verne@whitetrashcafe.com> wrote in message
>news:tt4lsglgqrvme3@corp.supernews.com...
>
>>  >and then to be totally shocked when it comes back to haunt us.  It also
>gives
>>  >them an excuse to beef up the military and put tighter controls on U.S.
>>  >citizens.
>>  >
>>  >Yes, appeasing American politicians and bureaucracies never works...
>>
>> Another conspiracy nut
>
>How so?  Even the most limited observational powers and comprehension of
>logic will allow one to see that any politician and/or bureaucracy -will-,
>when given the proverbial inch, take the proverbial mile.
>
>If you don't/can't/won't see this, it doesn't say much for you, does it?

It's the same in the UK, btw.  The PM is openly speaking against
thw whole idea of human rights and is, for example, demanding the power
to  imprison political prisoners indefinitely without trial.  The only
thing stopping him is the fact that he has signed a human rights
convention preventing things like that, but I doubt if that will stop him.

He did say that the UK authorities did not need greater powers
to spy on British subjects using mobile phones or the internet.
That is true - they have total power to do that now.  Blanket
surveillance is legal.  No warrant required.  No suspicion of
criminal activity required.  Blanket surveillance on any or all
of the population.

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