The loss of your freedom

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K3V0
18 years ago
3 years ago
5,966
23 Aug 2013 05:43:06
This line 'a threat to national security' seems to be the new in thing for them to say which allows them to do whatever they please.
Ninja
16 years ago
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5,341
23 Aug 2013 07:40:59
By K3VO | On 23 August 2013 - 06:43 AM
This line 'a threat to national security' seems to be the new in thing for them to say which allows them to do whatever they please.


Pretty much, along with 'harmful to children' and 'enabling terrorism'.
Sam
20 years ago
3 years ago
5,092
23 Aug 2013 07:52:10
Regardless of the information David Miranda 'has' the whole treatment of him is horrible.

Schedule 7 under the Terrorism Act allows the police to detain anyone without any requirement to show probable cause and hold them for up to nine hours, without seeking further justification. They can hold anybody they want to for no reason, they didn't ask Miranda once about terrorism in those nine hours.
K3V0
18 years ago
3 years ago
5,966
23 Aug 2013 08:28:14
Basically just giving themselves the power to illegally detain people.
Ninja
16 years ago
9 years ago
5,341
23 Aug 2013 08:34:54
I can imagine the Tories getting really pissed off when this law gets slapped down by the ECHR.
Mr Willy
18 years ago
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495
23 Aug 2013 10:15:53
Or they just completely ignore whatever the ECHR rules, like every ruling of the ECHR.
Obtuse
17 years ago
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1,338
23 Aug 2013 16:03:34
Big Brother Watch piped up in the Miranda argument

Also the US DoJ wants Dubya and senior cabinet members to be exempt from trial over the Iraq War.
Sam
20 years ago
3 years ago
5,092
01 Sep 2013 20:03:06
Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing revelations about US surveillance got a little creepier with the revelation that the National Security Agency hacked into Al-Jazeera TV’s encrypted e-mails, as well as Russian airline Aeroflot’s ticketing system.

German newspaper Der Spiegel reported the latest leaks, after seeing documents supporting the claim.

According to the newspaper, hacking into Al-Jazeera’s protected e-mails is considered no small feat in the US intelligence community. Among other things, the Arab news network has been known for broadcasting messages sent to the world by top Al-Qaeda figures for more than a decade. A substantial number of Osama bin Laden’s video broadcasts, from the 9/11 attacks onward, were broadcast on Al-Jazeera. Bin Laden sometimes appeared in the videos alongside his successor as Al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is still at large.


http://rt.com/news/nsa-jazeera-aeroflot-spy-272/

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