THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Plans to spy on every email and phone call will be subject to "the highest possible safeguards" to stop them becoming Orwellian, Nick Clegg has said.
The Deputy Prime Minister attempted to defend the Government’s new "snooping" laws, as he faces pressure from his own party and privacy campaigners over whether they constitute a breach of civil liberties.
The plans will allow police and intelligence officers to monitor who someone is in contact with and the websites they visit, although the content of communications will not be accessed.
Asked how he would protect privacy, Mr Clegg suggested the Government was open to amending its “draft” proposals, adding that "anything in this area is highly sensitive".
He claimed there would be no central Government database, which would have a "real Orwellian air". He also promised to make sure "hard-fought civil liberties" are properly protected.
"We're prepared to look at any safeguards that make sure people feel comfortable these are not the draconian proposals they have been portrayed as being," he told the BBC's World at One programme. » | Tuesday, April 03, 2012
My comment:
Clegg, you're a bloody wimp! If you expect intelligent people to believe this crap, you're deluded.
It's high time you and your cohorts found your/their gonads. What is now happening is typical of what happens when there is weak leadership.
Find your balls and go after the people who are perpetrating these crimes. You know as well as we all do just who those people are. Just in case you don't, I'll tell you: It's the Muslims, stupid!
If your intention is to create harmony between the indigenous population and the Muslim immigrants, you're going the wrong way about it. This law, robbing as it will the indigenous people of their liberty, will do nothing but breed even more Islamophobia.
Find the balls you were born with and go after the real criminals! Don't punish the vast majority of innocent people for the misdeeds of the few. What justice is there in that?
Little wonder that the majority of people now hold politicians in such contempt. Contempt is all you deserve. You are bringing shame on yourselves, and shame on your country. Furthermore, you are throwing away all that was prized about these fine British Isles. You disgust me, and I feel sure you disgust most decent people. Nick Clegg, David Cameron, Theresa May et al, go hang your heads in shame! – © Mark
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Taxpayers must foot £200 million bill to have their emails snooped on: Taxpayers will have to pay £200 million a year so police and security agencies can spy on their every email and phone call. » | Tom Whitehead | Security Editor | Tuesday, April 03, 2012
