Edward Snowden: state surveillance in Britain has no limits | World news | The Guardian
No limits to UK snooping says Snowden -- and again the confirmation of
wall-to-wall surveillance in Western democracies (US UK Australia NZ and
soon I expect Canada) has all unfolded in roughly parallel time and
been messaged in comparable or identical soundbites from intelligence
agencies ('chatter" "saves lives" "needle in haystack") Tactics that
precede the unveiling of mass surveillance and curbing of journalists'
rights and privacy are also often identical or parallel --
i.e. sweeps of Muslims in response to a threat or 'threat', almost none
of whom later face charges or the charges fall apart when the press is
no longer paying attention (US, UK, Australia); and parallel or
comparable ongoing 'threat' bulletins with no evidence offered media
(who aren't asking anyway) -- i.e. the US military was just told they
were personally under threat and this week the UK police were told they
were personally under threat. This latter may be true, may not -- no
investigative reporting follows up requesting evidence from government
spokespeople for these claims.
I will keep reporting this story out
until it changes: a global war on democracy in which identical or
similar themes are messaged and identical or similar laws are passed in
the wake of hysteria, in Western democracies around the world. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/12/snowden-state-surveillance-britain-no-limits
John Naughton
interviews Edward Snowden via Skype at the Observer Festival of Ideas
Photograph: Alicia Canter For The Guardian for the Guardian
