The Convention on Modern Liberty January 19, 2009
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Politics , trackbackSometimes, I wonder if I’m just paranoid, but then I realise I’m not the only one.
Some things really scare me:
- The way draconian legislation justified by the need to combat terrorism invariably gets used to investigate far less dangerous pursuits.
- The thought of the fact that I once googled ‘gay goat’ without thinking too hard getting onto a government database, or of some low-paid outsourced worker having access to a log of my emails.
- The notion of a national id database run by a government who’s only contribution to freedom of information seems to be their ability to release it onto trains and into rubbish bins
- Draconian policing of peaceful demonstrations, creating a climate of fear.
The last few years have seen a steady erosion of the valuable right of a British person to go about their lawful business in privacy and without interference by the authorities, while at the same time, government activity seems to be more and more hidden. And somehow, the voices of protest are few and far between. Noone really seems to be too concerned.
And so, I’ll be attending The Convention on Modern Liberty, being held in Bloomsbury on 28 Feb. Hopefully, it will be more than a talkshop gathering of the usual suspects, and some action will come out of it.
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Hi Camden Kiwi,
Thanks for writing about the Convention on Modern Libety and linking to us. I’ll see you there.
In the meantime we have put up a selection of buttons you can use to link to us if you support it.
http://www.modernliberty.net/participate/linktous
Cheers,
Guy
deputy director, CML