The Canary bracht gisteren een artikel met de titel ‘Three things Theresa May has forced on Britain that make her scarier than Donald Trump’.
The Canary heeft wat veren laten vallen, daar het o.a. op de proppen komt met ‘The Investigatory Act’, een ‘wet’ waarmee de Britse overheid in alle persoonlijke gegevens mag peuren en alle browsegegevens mag inzien, waarbij die wet internetaanbieders verplicht, een jaar lang de hele internetgeschiedenis van iedereen op te slaan en toegankelijk te maken voor diverse overheidsinstanties………
Volgens The Canary heeft het beest Trump een dergelijke wet nog niet ingevoerd, beetje suf, daar de VS een dergelijke wet al heeft, met het oppoetsen van een ouder wet door ‘change-vredesduif’ Obama….. In 2015 werd in de VS bekend gemaakt, dat middels oudere wetgeving in de hand, het wissen van de browsegeschiedenis (of: browsergeschiedenis, wat u wilt) een misdrijf is…….. Via de meer dan fascistoïde Patriot Act heeft de overheid in de VS al toegang tot ieders computer (zelfs buiten de VS, zoals zelfs de Duitse premier Merkel moest ontdekken……*)
Buiten dit feit, blijft het uiteraard een schandaal, dat ‘een democratische regering’ als de inhumane neoliberale regering May in Groot-Brittannië, een dergelijke wet invoert.
Voorts voert The Canary (in een verder uitstekend artikel) o.a. nog aan, dat May op Franse bodem al een betonnen muur van 4 meter hoog en een kilometer lang heeft laten bouwen, dit om vluchtelingen buiten GB te houden, ‘The Calais Wall’, zoals men die muur in GB noemt…….
Ook heeft de Britse regering wagens laten rondrijden met de tekst dat je gearresteerd zal worden, als je illegaal in Groot-Brittannië bent en je daarom als ‘illegaal’ zijnde, beter kan vertrekken….. Nadat hier ophef over ontstond en May haar ‘excuus’ moest aanbieden, werd de inzet van de Britse douane ‘iets fanatieker’ (en gewelddadig), dan eerder…….
Hier het artikel:
Three
things Theresa May has forced on Britain that make her scarier than
Donald Trump [EDITORIAL]
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The
increasingly belligerent and authoritarian actions of the Trump White
House are (rightly) spreading concern across the world. But if
we want to know where the wannabe dictator is looking for tips, look
no further than 10 Downing Street. Theresa May – as Home Secretary
and Prime Minister – has pushed Britain way further down the road
to authoritarianism than Trump has yet succeeded in doing in the
US.
The
Investigatory Powers Act
The
above act received Royal
Assent on 29 November 2016. And it made Britain the most
advanced surveillance state in the democratic world.
It gives the
government unrestricted access to everyone’s personal information
and internet browsing history.
Internet
Service Providers must now store details of everything you do online
for a year, and make it available to dozens of public agencies. This
gives authorities unprecedented access to our online lives: our
interests, our networks of friends, family and colleagues, our sexual
interests, our religious and political views, our medical history,
right down to the basic pattern of our daily life.
And
as a recent Amnesty International report
[pdf, p35] points
out, the government ignored most criticisms and recommendations made
about the bill:
Despite
the sweeping powers in the Investigatory Powers Act that threaten to
violate the human rights of people inside and outside the UK, the
bill was pushed through parliament by the government, which ignored
criticism from parliamentary committees, the telecommunications
industry and civil society, including the UN’s privacy chief, who
had warned that the bill violated the right to privacy and ran
contrary to recent Europe Court of Human Rights jurisprudence.
This
leaves the government and its agencies with the power to surveil
almost everything citizens do online. And all without the need for a
warrant or cause for suspicion. As NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden
put it:
The
Calais Wall
Donald
Trump’s border wall with Mexico remains, at least for now, a flight
of Trumpian fancy. But Theresa May has already built her Great Wall
of Calais to keep refugees out of Britain. In fact, how the fiasco
has remained so quiet is a testament to the blunt-toothed
non-response of much of the UK press.
The wall is
a four-metre-high, 1km-long concrete barrier – built to separate
the ‘Calais Jungle’ refugee camp from passing freight lorries. It
was designed to prevent desperate refugees making their way to
Britain by leaping onto passing traffic. Britain funded the wall, at
a cost of £2.3m to
the taxpayer. The wall was completed last December, two
months after authorities
had driven refugees out of the camp and burned it to the ground.
As
Matt Broomfield writes in
a searing comment piece for The
Independent:
A
multi-million wall built to separate the Calais Jungle from
passing trucks has finally been completed, two months after the camp
was bulldozed and its thousands of refugee residents scattered around
France.
The
British-funded wall cost £2.3m. That’s more
expensive than the modern, wood-shelter camp which houses 2,500
refugees in nearby Dunkirk, or enough to house and support nearly 300
Syrian refugees in Britain for a year.
Beste bezoeker, hier had een video moeten staan, maar deze is door YouTube verwijderd; tja de waarheid is vervelend voor de machthebbers, die o.a YouTube maar al te graag bevriend houdt, kijk als het nou een video van een jonge meid was, de tegen haar zin was geplaatst, was het een ander verhaal geweest…………
Theresa
May and the racist vans
But
it was as Home Secretary that Theresa May’s populist attacks on
migrants and refugees hit a peak in 2013. May dispatched a fleet
of ‘racist vans’ to the streets. The vans, pictured above,
told immigrants to ‘go home or face arrest’, and provided
numbers for suspicious citizens to dob in suspected
immigrants/refugees.
After
mass uproar at the Orwellian sight of vans trawling British
streets, May was forced to apologise.
But
she was undeterred. Later that same year, she sent officers
from the UK Border Agency to several transport hubs in the
South East, in an attempt to perform an anti-immigrant sweep.
Non-white commuters, mostly UK citizens, were seized by officials
demanding proof of citizenship.
Image
of UK Border Agency officers in Kensal Station, via Phil
O’Shea
The
following account was reported to The Kilburn
Times:
according
to several witnesses the officers were aggressive, intimidating and
were specifically targeting non-white individuals.
Kensal
Rise resident Phil O’Shea told the Times he was threatened with
arrest when he asked what was going on.
He
said:
‘I
thought the behaviour of the immigration officers was heavy-handed
and frightening. They appeared to be stopping and questioning every
non-white person, many of whom were clearly ordinary Kensal Green
residents going to work.’
‘When
I queried what was going on I was threatened with arrest for
obstruction and was told to ‘crack on’.’
‘I
asked that officer for his name but he refused to give it and said I
could read his number on his shoulder but I couldn’t see a number
there.’
Donald
Trump and Theresa May are two peas in a pod
Anyone
hoping for May to provide pro-democratic counsel to Trump has missed
the rising authoritarianism on our own shores. May’s recent fawning
visit to the US was not solely about hopes of a post-Brexit
trade deal. The pair are also like two peas in a pod.
In
delivery and in matters of personal conduct, the two are juxtaposed.
But they share something far more important: a strong
authoritarian streak, an inability to compromise and work within a
team, and a hostility to progressive values.
If
you want to know what Donald Trump is going to do next, just look at
Britain. Because Theresa May already did it. And without a fraction
of the opposition Trump is facing.
That
should be a matter of concern for us all.
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* Vreemd genoeg leidde dit bespioneren van Merkel wel tot grote opschudding, maar dat was van korte duur, waar de uiteindelijke conclusie kan worden getrokken, dat men de VS haar gang laat gaan…….. Vergelijk dat eens met de totale ongefundeerde hysterie rond het zogenaamd manipuleren van de verkiezingen in de VS door Rusland en alle na aap hysterie in landen als Nederland, waar men e.e.a. beweert als was het een wet van Meden en Perzen, terwijl er niet één duizendste nanometer bewijs voor is………. Over nepnieuws brengen gesproken, waarbij dit ‘nieuws’ telkens weer als waarheid wordt gepropageerd door westerse politici en de reguliere westerse (massa-) media!!!
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