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Is this ok in a democratic society?
#1
Is this ok in a democratic society?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23776063

http://www.spiegel.de/international/worl...17689.html



From this side of the channel the UK goverment seems to be more and more forgetting what democracy is and turning into a 51st state of the US.
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#2
RE: Is this ok in a democratic society?
You know the short answer is NO / Nein!

Globally ALL governments are worried...I wonder what is about to be exposed Thinking
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#3
RE: Is this ok in a democratic society?
(August 21, 2013 at 5:42 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: From this side of the channel the UK goverment seems to be more and more forgetting what democracy is and turning into a 51st state of the US.

Anything to better our "special" relationship with America.

Besides, does anyone seriously expect that they wouldn't do this? Democracy? Lol.
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#4
RE: Is this ok in a democratic society?
I hope more shit about the government gets leaked, piss em off.
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#5
RE: Is this ok in a democratic society?
(August 21, 2013 at 5:42 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: From this side of the channel the UK goverment seems to be more and more forgetting what democracy is and turning into a 51st state of the US.

I suspect this is much more widespread than you think, and only a few countries have been caught with their pants down.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#6
RE: Is this ok in a democratic society?
Quote:Meanwhile, the partner of a Guardian journalist held for nine hours at Heathrow airport under anti-terror laws on Sunday has described his "feeling of invasion" after being forced to divulge email and social media account passwords.

Kind of ironic, heh.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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#7
RE: Is this ok in a democratic society?
(August 21, 2013 at 8:14 am)Faith No More Wrote:
(August 21, 2013 at 5:42 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: From this side of the channel the UK goverment seems to be more and more forgetting what democracy is and turning into a 51st state of the US.

I suspect this is much more widespread than you think, and only a few countries have been caught with their pants down.

I dont think so. A thing like this would never happen in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and the Scandinavian countries. Maybe in the Netherlands. And in Germany, the chancelor is currently undertaking every single move possible in politics to weasle herself out of any connection to this. I dont know how much you get in your news on German politics, but the extent to which the NSA was cooperating with the German intelligence services will almoust definatly cost Merkel the election if she cannot provide evidence that her goverment was not involved. Germans are as big on the right to privacy as some Americans are on the right to bear arms. As Lenin once said "A revolution is impossible in Germany because it is considered a crime there to look at your neighbours garden."
The UK is pritty much the only country on this continent which somehow thinks that it is alright to surrender national sovereignty and the rights of it`s citzisens to a other nation. And it makes the entire matter only stink more that it is the UK which constantly keeps bitching about how other European countries are supposedly "taking the UK`s sovereignty".
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#8
RE: Is this ok in a democratic society?
Not in France, eh?

Quote:France's foreign intelligence service intercepts computer and telephone data on a vast scale, like the controversial US Prism programme, according to the French daily Le Monde.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23178284

Don't be so naive.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#9
RE: Is this ok in a democratic society?
Some people have unwavering patriotism toward their country and especially toward what they view as a perfect government. Unfortunately, power does corrupt, especially when mere humans become entangled in its corrupted web.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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#10
RE: Is this ok in a democratic society?
(August 21, 2013 at 8:28 am)Faith No More Wrote: Not in France, eh?

Quote:France's foreign intelligence service intercepts computer and telephone data on a vast scale, like the controversial US Prism programme, according to the French daily Le Monde.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23178284

Don't be so naive.

You are willingly ignoring the fact that the NSA is a foreign intelligence service in Europe.
I do not deny that countries have intelligence services which collect data on it`s population and I certainly do not doubt that the French intelligence services are gathering information on their own citizens.
Yet the French are not giving the NSA a free card on spying on French citizens let alone helping to sabotage the efforts of the press to uncover such actions.

My point being: France is not giving up it`s sovereignty and it`s citizens rights to be fucked arround with by the NSA with the consent of the French goverment.
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