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26/7/14 DRAFT subject to many revisions

OK, this is taking longer than expected.

It seems very sensible that those intending to influence government are not terrrists

because

that is the [ed: very] basis of representative democracy i.e. that elected representatives represent their electors. You cannot be a terrrist on the basis of intending to influence government because that is exactly what active citizens do and are expected to do. That is recognised as completely legitimate action.

penumbra is used as a legal term.

TBC

ed:

UK definition of terrorism ‘could catch political journalists and bloggers’

 

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Cameron, Clegg and Ed sneak in a snoopers’ charter by the back door

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A snoopers’ charter by the backdoor: One day until Drip is forced through

by Ian Dunt

Privacy campaigners are frantically trying to brief MPs about the implications of the data retention and investigatory powers bill (Drip), before it is forced through all of its Commons stages tomorrow.

The more experts look at the bill, the more convinced they’ve become that it provides authorities with the spine of the snoopers’ charter, but without any of the public debate or parliamentary scrutiny which were supposed to accompany it.

The charter – known as the draft communications bill before it was killed off – would have forced internet service providers and mobile operators to keep details of their customers’ behaviour for 12 months.

Analysis of Drip, which was supposed to only extend the government’s current powers for another two years, suggests it forces through many of those requirements on internet firms without any of the political outrage which derailed the earlier effort.

Clause four of the bill appears to extend Ripa – the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (basically Britain’s Patriot Act) – so that the UK government can impose severe penalties on companies overseas that refuse to comply with interception warrants. It also lays out situations in which they may be required to maintain permanent interception capacity.

Clause five then provides a new definition of “telecommunications service”, which includes companies offering internet-based services. That seems to drag services like Gmail and Hotmail into the law, and very probably social media sites like Facebook too.

The government insists the extraterritoriality clause merely makes explicit what was previously implicit. It’s tosh. As the explanatory notes for the legislation – released very quietly on Friday night – make clear, overseas telecommunications companies did not believe they were necessarily under Ripa’s jurisdiction.

“Regarding the amendments to Ripa, in view of the suggestion by overseas telecommunications service providers that the extra-territorial effect of Ripa is unclear, it is considered necessary to amend the legislation to put the issue beyond doubt,” it reads.

“This includes clarifying the definition of a ‘telecommunications service’ to ensure the full range of telecommunications services available to customers in the United Kingdom are included in the definition.”

David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband insist Drip merely extends their current powers for two years. That’s nonsense. These two clauses, which have nothing to do with the purported aim of the bill, provide the spine of the snoopers’ charter.

They also appear to provide a legal basis for programmes like Tempora, the project revealed by Edward Snowden to allow GCHQ to tap into transatlantic fibre-optic cables and stored data.

Notably, Privacy International, Liberty and others are taking the government to a tribunal this week on whether Tempora is legal, even though the government won’t even admit its existence. Drip could make the tribunal ruling irrelevant.

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Tony Blair, Terrorist

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Tony Blair Inc is doing fantastically well – being a conzultant to all the most repressive anti-democratic regimes that there are.

In 1997 Blair was elected with 418 MPs – which I find (edit: so) weird and makes me wonder if all so-called Western democracy is so corrupt.

9/11 He was awfully ‘lucky’ (lucky lucky – we know a song about that;)

He should be so lucky, lucky, lucky

Was it more than luck?

That the Blair was there at that opportune moment …

To stand shoulder to shoulder, to be there at that time … in front of the cameras … so all the rest of the world … could take a lead from …

Him

He was due to address the TUC congress, the organisation that represents UK unions and therefore the UK working class that Bliar as leader of the ‘Socilaist’ working-class was supposed to represent …

but …

all of sudden …

Bliar couldn’t address the TUC congress because there was an international crisis

That was ****ing lucky for Him cos they wanted his head on a spike for shi**ing on the unions and the working-class.

That was awfully lucky for Him

or was it …

arranged that way?

Blair on 9/11

Was it so fortunate that Bliar had a stage to abandon on 11 September, 2001? That he was the first World leader to frame the international response to 911? Was that fortunate or something else?

He was due to address the TUC. Television stations were there to transmit his speech. The World caught it. This is why Bliar is so successful. He is a terrorist.

He said

“This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life and we, the democracies of this world, are going to have to come together to fight it together and eradicate this evil completely from our world.”

By being the first to respond, He framed and constrained the response.

I can’t find the cnut addressing the TUC on 9/11. Can anyone find that? It should be available.

 

OK, I’ll continue with alleged UK/Blair complicity in 9/11

Don’t you think it’s weird that this lying cnut promoted it so much?

 

ed: The point I was trying to make – which I have probably failed to make so far – is that Tony Blair was made and has enriched Himself fantastically through His response to 911 and since. TBC. and that’s all

ed: that He’s a terrorist because that’s all that there is about him

 

3.45am

http://www.nicholasjones.org.uk/articles/37-political-spin/spin-by-government/166-impact-of-tony-blairs-911-soundbites

… everything was in place for Blair to seize the moment; the planned live coverage of the speech meant that with a little advance warning other news networks around the world could easily link up to Brighton. Official reaction was sparse as governments scrambled to interpret what was going but the word went out that Blair was about to give Britain’s first response.

However tragic the circumstances Blair’s director of communications Alastair Campbell needed no guidance on how to respond: his task was to ensure that Blair’s authority was enhanced. The prepared text was abandoned and the Prime Minister’s instant attempt to address the challenges facing democratic nations could hardly be bettered:

“This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life and we, the democracies of the world, are going to have to come together to fight it together and eradicate this evil completely from our world.”

Later that evening on his return to Downing Street, Blair spoke again to reporters and reinforced his call for solidarity with the United Sates, a soundbite which was replayed time and again on American news channels:

“This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. We therefore here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy.  We, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.”

Right on cue images were supplied to illustrate the standing “shoulder to shoulder” soundbite. Next morning the pictures reinforced the message as the band of the Coldstream Guards performed the American national anthem the Star-Spangled Banner outside Buckingham Palace during the Changing of the Guard.

Campbell’s orchestration was a masterful demonstration of Blair’s understanding of the demands of the electronic news media and it is little wonder that their ability to exploit a global television audience became the envy of many other governments around the world.  End  Nicholas Jones 5.9.2011

 “People’s Princess”  (you know)

3.55 I have been trying to develop the theme that there is nothing more to Bliar than terrorism.

Terrorism made Blair.

Blair was there straight away, If it wasn’t for terrorism …

 

4.30 Time for a full stop?

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It’s obvious

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that I’m going to have to publish a leaflet saying that I am regarded as a potential terrrist

because I am a totally legitimite and legal political activist

I will deliver it locally

to all these people who fully appreciate

that I am only a terrrist because I oppose

the official total bullshit

ed: I expect that it will be easily undertood

edit: I mean that I will deliver it locally to make people aware of political oppression

Since my neighbours obviously know that I am not an **** terrrist

edit: No the idea is

That I am a political activist engaging in totally legitimite political activity. Get it?

ed: I should have said

The reality is

ed: Shall we have a draft?

I am your neighbour. Because of my totally legal and legitimite political activities

I can be shot without any warning

Authorities have decided that they can kill me because I oppose them

They will call me a potential terrrist

because I argue against terrrism bullshit

ed: I have been aware for many years that I am regarded as a potential terrorist – the imaginary self-exploding type

It is so unreasonable and anti-democratic that reasoned critiscm of the bullshit terrorism narrative results in this. Don’t you see that everyone who opposes Neo-Con bullshit is called a terrrist?

I Call it Neo-Con bullshit.

ed: Fascsim does not and cannot allow critisism (dissent)

Democracy does and can

ed: It’s not the blog post I intended for today but then it is what I feel.

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More terrorism bullshit …

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Airport security stepped up in Britain over al-Qaida bomb plot fears

Be afraid …

what a load of nonsense to make you far more afraid

ed: Soldiers drafted in to increase Heathrow security

ed: Cor, look at that 4 days later a huge anti-war protest Weren’t they afraid? Didn’t they believe the bullshit dossiers and all that? Didn’t they believe that Tony Bliar was a truthful straight kinda guy? Didn’t they believe all that bullshit about those fantastical caves? Didn’t they believe that Tony, the UK government and establishment were only interested in protecting them – because they were in such imminent danger?

Didn’t they believe that there were evil terrrists out there?

Shouldn’t these demonstrators have realised that there were terrrists coming to Heathrow?

Shouldn’t they have realised that they can make imaginary liquid bombs?

Shouldn’t they be afraid and not question our glorious leaders?

… who are no doubt only interested in protecting them (us) …

Fascists control through fear.

We’ve not had this for a while. This is what happens to Fascists

Image of Mussolini & Co hanging out. What happens to Fascists.
Image of Mussolini & Co hanging out. What happens to Fascists.

 

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