UK Taps 439,000 Phones
By UsaydEver watch the film ‘Enemy of the State’?
Almost 450,000 requests were made to monitor people’s telephone calls, e-mails and post by secret agencies and other authorised bodies in just over a year, the spying watchdog said yesterday.
Should you be scared? Well yeah, if your brown, Muslim or Brazilian looking I’d watch my back. That’s not actually a joke, you see people often rant about the so-called monitoring that people are subject to, and honestly, we usually ignore it. When it comes to your community then you realise that perhaps its time to start being careful - why? Because they don’t need much to get you into a whole load of trouble and when I say they don’t need much, I mean that. Read my book review on Enemy Combatant which tells of how Moazzam Begg was held for 3 years for nothing. You think that couldn’t be you?
Now being careful and being cowardice are two different things. Speak your mind, speak the truth. We need to remember that at the end of the day, we will be held accountable by the fairest of judges.
Actually saw this one one of the slashdot comments, perhaps something very applicable…
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
-Attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoller
Extremely random article? Yeah I’m sorry…
March 17th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
LOL they read that Niemoller quote in Y11 assembly - I like it too. UK for security purposes, has to tap on anyones phone whether they be any colour, the reason for looking at asian voices is perfectly understandable as they are looking for connections with extremist militant groups like Al Qaeda - and as seen in the news lately, they have been planning attacks, as a MI5 report leaked out.
March 17th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Sorry but I disagree, and that’s funny because you’ve got a much stronger ‘Asian’ accent them me so you should be more concerned. Why you believe MI5 reports I have no idea, especially whilst our country is responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents due to ‘intelligence failure’ from such organisations.
If only it was as simple as ‘i have nothing to hide…’, we’ve seen from the cases in Guantanamo that really isn’t the way it works.