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Labour Government's New Travel Database
Yet another British freedom has been sacrificed for the UK government's 'Flight of Fancy'. Unhappy with the security services ability to access airlines records where necessary, they now require a
separate database.
Why is this new database such a danger? because it controls your movement, it records in essence your location, it details your travel habits and can be used to determine your behaviour and
circumvent your freedom.
The database tracks and stores computerised records of 250 million international journeys made yet year by millions of Britons. The record will retain your name, addresses, phone numbers, seat reservations, travel itineraries and credit card details.
So what is the government's reasons for breaching your freedoms this time? It is claimed that such a database is essential in the fight against crime, illegal immigration and terrorism. An argument negated when it is understood that the UK government and its
security services already have full access to but not control over such information and it appears they wish to have control.
This latest 'Big Brother' sham has been slammed by opposition MPs and privacy campaigners, seeing this Labour government as the designers and architects of a British surveillance society.
Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said "The government seems to be building databases to track more and more of our lives. The justification is always about security or personal protection. But the truth is that we have a government that just can't be trusted over these highly sensitive issues. We must not allow ourselves to become a Big Brother society."
Whilst the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said: "This is another example of an intrusive database without any public debate about safeguards on its use. We are sleepwalking into a surveillance state and should remember that George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a blueprint."
One has to question whether the real danger lies from potential terrorists or criminals or whether our greatest danger is now this Labour Government, it's desire to Control & Track and the legislation they have introduced robbing us of freedoms that other Britons laid their lives down for. Under the e-Borders scheme the government already has access to all flights, ferries and rail journeys and has already tracked and controlled over 75 million citizens.
The government claims no danger exists and such a scheme has lead to 2,700 arrests for crime. However they are more
reluctant to state the number of convictions, how many of these arrests where false. They indicate that such a scheme holds no danger as it already exists in other countries including the US, Canada, Spain and Australia, but all this indicates is, that nations known as
'The West', are having their freedoms eroded and the UK is the latest to join 'A War On Freedom'.
Last Updated: 8th
October 2009
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