Increment

Submitter sez: "It's 1984 in the UK":

Every phone call, email or website visit will be monitored by the state under plans to be unveiled next week.

The proposals will give police and security services the power to snoop on every single communication made by the public with the data then likely to be stored in an enormous national database.

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, will argue the powers are needed to target terrorists and serious criminals who are taking advantage of the increasing complex nature of communications to plot atrocities and crimes.

A consultation document on the plans, known in Whitehall as the Interception Modernisation Programme, is likely to put great emphasis on the threat facing Britain and warn the alternative to the powers would be a massive expansion of surveillance.

So their argument is "let us intrude into your life or we'll intrude into your life"?

I'd like to see behind door number 3, please.


And by the way:


Their Jacqui Smith


Our Jacqui Smith

And they wonder why we wanted our own country. Sheesh.

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(Hat-tip to Shark)