[Gllug] re: USA / civil liberties etc

[salsaman]

Alain Williams wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 07:51:56AM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
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>>There are very good reasons to limit the amount of information the state 
>>(or anyone, for that matter) can hold. We're already moving further and 
>>further towards a totalitarian state - albeit a more subtle form than 
>>those seen in much of europe in the last century (at the moment). If the 
>>state has sufficient information it will be practically impossible for 
>>any innocent group targetted by the state to escape.
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>Or group that some civil servant takes a dislike to for real or imagined reasons.
>These people often wield a lot of power and are, to all intents and purposes, unaccountable.
>A very public version of this was the McCarthyism 50 years ago in the USA.
>They end up creating jobs to deal with 'undesirables', when they have dealt with
>the first lot then end up looking for other targets to persecute ...
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One just has to look at the current Whitehouse phonetap scandal for a 
good example. As well as tapping "suspected terrorists", such 
"dangerous" groups as vegans and quakers have also been targeted...

Gabriel.

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