Bookmarks for May 20, 2008
- BBC NEWS | UK | Phone calls database considered
Good fucking grief. Insert Orwell references here. Is there any English speaking nation I can get into that isn’t getting increasingly fucking Big Brother, please?
- Radar Online : Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law?
A senior government official says: “There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated.” This may be as many as 8 million people.