(August 21, 2013 at 9:13 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: 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.
I wasn't willingly ignoring the fact, just misinterpreting your point. My apologies.
I am ignorant of the political relationship between the American and U.K. governments in recent history, but I can tell that the U.K. has appeared to sometimes act as the American lapdog since Tony Blair was elected. From what little I know, it looks as if it may even go back to Thatcher, and I speculate that most of this is the result of the relationship developed in WWII.
But perhaps someone with more political and historical expertise can shed some light on the subject.
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
