Energy Efficiency

In America they called it Homeland Security (run by former head of Stasi – East German Secret Police), where the government under the direction of George Bush, Dick Cheney and Co, illegally tapped in phone accounts searching for the ‘subversive’ element; this includes normal citizens who object to government policy that undermines or threatens natural rights.

And in ‘Mother England’ a new law to be introduced that everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a national database under government plans to extend massively the powers of state surveillance.

A compulsory national register for the owners of all 72m mobile phones in Britain would be part of a much bigger database to combat terrorism and crime. Whitehall officials have raised the idea of a register containing the names and addresses of everyone who buys a phone in recent talks with Vodafone and other telephone companies, insiders say.

The move is targeted at monitoring the owners of Britain’s estimated 40m prepaid mobile phones. They can be purchased with cash by customers who do not wish to give their names, addresses or credit card details. The proposals have sparked a fierce backlash inside Whitehall. Senior officials in the Home Office have privately warned that the database scheme is impractical, disproportionate and potentially unlawful.

The revolt last week forced Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, to delay announcing plans for the database until next year.

And in OZ (where trial plans are conducted in individual States and then implemented on a national basis ‘so we are in alignment with the other States and Territories’) – the NSW Government has proposed new secret search powers where Police or others are able to hide their identity and sneak into your home without your knowing; a notice that a covert search has been carried out – in your home – can be deferred for up to 6 months (with possible extensions up to 3 years) after entry to the premises, and in some cases, you need not be told at all.

And it is not as though NSW Police and the Crime Commission have a record of being immune to corruption, so planting and tampering with evidence could occur.