Are you scared yet?
I watched this exchange on Question Time last night completely aghast:
Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon has said the government is prepared to go “quite a long way” with civil liberties to “stop terrorists killing people”.
He was responding to criticism of plans for a database of mobile and web records, saying it was needed because terrorists used such communications.
By not monitoring this traffic, it would be “giving a licence to terrorists to kill people”, he said.
It’s almost refreshing to see a New Labour Minister finally admit that as far as they are concerned our civil liberties are completely meaningless. At least now we know exactly where we stand with this lot.
