Monday 10th August 2009

Well, after a day spent battling with the deep dark depression that seems to take over thinking, Slowly I return to what passes for normality, thanks in no small part to the Blogs I found on "The Blog Frog". Several of them are quite hilarious and I am grateful for their therapy.

It also helped to spend a few minutes reading one of the UK Newspapers, namely The Daily Mail. How it does remind one of the absurdity of Modern Britain. So here we go for anyone who feels threatened by our current President and his policies. I know you are out there the GOP believer.

Big Brother Britain has more CCTV cameras than communist China

Britain has one and a half times as many surveillance cameras as China, shocking figures revealed today.

Think about that people! One and a Half Times as many as in the whole of Communist China! Think about the comparative sizes of China and the UK!

Meanwhile..............
Britain's extraordinary march towards a surveillance state is revealed today by shock new figures.
They show that one request is made every minute for officials to spy on someones phone records or email accounts.
The number of Big Brother snooping missions by police, town halls and other public bodies has soared by 44 per cent in two years.Last year there were 504,073 new cases - an average of 1,381 a day. It is the equivalent of one adult in 78 coming under state-sanctioned surveillance.
The snoopers are using a law originally aimed at terror suspects. But their targets include people suspected of storing petrol without a licence and bringing a dog into the country without quarantining it.
Liberal Democrat spokesman Chris Huhne said last night: 'It cannot be a justified response to the problems we face in this country that the state is spying on half a million people a year.
'The Government forgets that George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a blueprint. We are still a long way from living under the Stasi - but it beggars belief that it is necessary to spy on one in every 78 adults.'
The requests to intercept email and telephone records were made under the hugely controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
A total of 653 state bodies, including 474 local councils, are allowed to use its surveillance powers.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205419/March-state-spies-One-78-adults-came-state-sanctioned-surveillance-year.html#ixzz0NooJQGVu

Now the "And Finally " Section
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