Matthew Hickley / UK Daily Mail | Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire population were condemned yesterday as a ‘step too far for the British way of life’.

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Nick Juliano / Raw Story | Friday, July 11, 2008

For more than 20 years, Chris Hedges reported from around the globe as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times and other outlets, working from countries with little to no respect for a free and independent press, where his phone was bugged and he was trailed by government agents to prevent dissidents and whistle-blowers from speaking to him.

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David Icke.com | Thursday, July 10, 2008

This is what David Icke has sought to ask of David Davis, the man who instigated the ‘Big Brother’ by-election because he said he wanted a debate on the Big Brother State. A debate on his own terms, that is, and the terms of his Neoconservative allies, and certainly not a debate on global Big Brother with David Icke.
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Bradley Olson / Baltimore Sun | Wednesday, July 9, 2008

With Congress on the verge of outlining new parameters for National Security Agency eavesdropping between suspicious foreigners and Americans, lawmakers are leaving largely untouched a host of government programs that critics say involves far more domestic surveillance than the wiretaps they sought to remedy.
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PHILLIP DOE / Counterpunch | July 9, 2008

Jonathan Swift, the great Irish political writer and satirist, is not alone in observing that great nations rarely fall from outside threats or attack. More often they decline and fall from internal corruption. The Congress is deaf to this warning it appears, for last week they passed legislation that is advertised as reforming FISA.

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Andrew Porter / London Telegraph | July 7, 2008

The cost of Britain’s “surveillance society” measures is now running at £20 billion, a new report reveals today.

The amount is equivalent to £800 per household and includes £19 billion for the planned ID card system and £500 million for CCTV cameras.

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Jeffrey Denning / WashingtonTimes.com | July 8, 2008

Just when you thought you’ve heard it all…A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers. This bracelet would: Take the place of an airline boarding pass. Contain personal information about the traveler. Be able to monitor the whereabouts of each passenger and his/her luggage. Shock the wearer on command, completely immobilizing him/her for several minutes. The Electronic ID Bracelet, as it’s referred to as, would be worn by every traveler “until they disembark the flight at their destination.” Yes, you read that correctly. Every airline passenger would be tracked by a government-funded GPS, containing personal, private and confidential information, and that it would shock the customer worse than an electronic dog collar if he/she got out of line?

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