Governments building "global registration & surveillance infrastructure"

[G_j]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1464412,00.html

Warning on spread of state surveillance

Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday April 21, 2005
The Guardian

Governments are building a "global registration and surveillance infrastructure" in the US-led "war on terror", civil liberty groups warned yesterday.
The aim is to monitor the movements and activities of entire populations in what campaigners call "an unprecedented project of social control".

The warning came from the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, including the American Civil Liberties Union, and Statewatch, a UK-based bulletin which tracks developments in the EU.


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[DrDebug]

1. Kick

Big Brother should be operational in 2007. Just before the 2008 elections, right?

[G_j]

2. any thoughts? n/t

[robertarctor]

3. any thoughts?

gee, that might be dangerous. Party leaders say tractor production is up 50%!

[G_j]

4. I would think European citizens would strongly object to this

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They also point to an agreement between Europol - the EU's incipient police headquarters - and the US giving what they say will be an unlimited number of American agencies access to sensitive information on the race, political opinions, religious beliefs, health and sexual life of individuals.

The groups point to increasingly close cooperation between national police, security, intelligence, and military establishments.

To achieve their ends, they say, governments have suspended judicial oversight over law enforcement agents and public officials, concentrated unprecedented power in the hands of the executive arm of government, and rolled back criminal law and due process protections that balance the rights of individuals against the power of the state. "
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[Frederik]

5. That is downright scary

This development has to be stopped.

[G_j]

6. International Campaign Against Mass Surveillance

International Campaign Against Mass Surveillance (ICAMS)

THE EMERGENCE OF A GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MASS REGISTRATION AND SURVEILLANCE

www.xs4all.nl/~respub/campaign/summaryreport.htm -

[Just Me]

7. Yet another piece of evidence PROVING this administration,...

,...are a buncha' fascist tyrants!!! :grr:

They seek to impose their will upon the whole world: that is about as extreme ANTI-DEMOCRACY as anything.

Good grief!!!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. I thought "one-world government" was a bad thing invented by the Left?

Oh, IOKIYAR I guess. :sarcasm:

[G_j]

9. well while

the freeper types get all wound up about the UN, look who's slippin' in!