| Yes Gordon, of course people will believe this is all about terrorism. Make the lie big, make it
simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it |
This supposedly "informal" G6 group usually seem to manage to "policy launder" their decisions via the wider, full membership of the European Union, and then they can pretend that their latest Orwellian control fantasy which they
are inflicting on our freedoms and liberties, has somehow been imposed on them by the EU, and is necessary to meet "international commitments", even though they themselves instigated the original policy. From Hansard:
Written Ministerial Statements Wednesday, 15 October 2008 Home Department G6 and United States Counter-Terrorism Symposium
Jacqui Smith (Home Secretary; Redditch, Labour)
The informal G6 group of
Interior Ministers from France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom met in Bonn, Germany on 26 and 27 September 2008, along with the United States State Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. This was the third G6 plus US
counter-terrorism symposium meeting. I attended on behalf of the United Kingdom.
The symposium was divided into four substantive discussion sessions:
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remote searches of computer hard drives;
[...]
Is this a further development of what the German government has been attempting recently ?
Presumably this involves intrusive access to remote computers, by means of some sort of spyware, computer virus, trojan horse backdoor
etc., or by on the fly deep packet inspection and sniffing of passwords or other security credentials, |