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Britain's "vital" emergency surveillance law ruled unlawful
[Ynet] Britannia has been given nine months to produce new surveillance legislation it says is vital to national security after London's High Court ruled on Friday that emergency measures rushed through parliament last year were unlawful.The court backed a judicial challenge from two prominent politicians and other campaigners that powers which compelled telecoms firms to retain customer data for a year were inconsistent with European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... laws. Prime Minister  David Cameron... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite,which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger,but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... had said the measures were vital to protect the country, which is on high alert because of the threat posed by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... gunnies and from Britons who have travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight with them. "The court has recognised what was clear to many last year, that the government's hasty and ill thought through legislation is fatally flawed," said politician David Davis, a long-time campaigner against state intrusion who was defeated by Cameron in the race to become Conservative Party leader in 2005. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-07-18 |
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