All in the name of keeping us safe-from the terrorists, you know~
The UK is now a King...dom again. The King decrees it and so it must be! And in this case the King is not even a benevolent one! The King is ruled by the tyrannical globali...
st criminals who meet secretively and tells him what to do! I wonder when the Lying King in the White House will catch on and do the same thing here. It's only a matter of time. Just wait until UN Agenda 21 is imposed on all of us! They'll be telling us where we can go, what we can eat, what we can grow in our gardens (they're already doing that), whether we get that operation we need or a pill and sent home, and they'll be relegating us to stack and pack communities so that they can round us up and put us in our little cubicles at night! Welcome! To the Brave New World! Where our lives are no longer our own, and where our children will belong to the Statists to be used and exterminated at their will.
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There was some surprise in the comments of yesterday’s post over the fact that the United Kingdom has effectively outlawed encryption: the UK will send its citizens to jail for up to five years if they cannot produce the key to an encrypted data set.

First of all, references – the law is here. You will be sent to jail for refusing to give up encryption keys, regardless of whether you have them or not. Five years of jail if it’s a terrorism investigation (or child porn, apparently), two years otherwise. It’s fascinating – there are four excuses that keep coming back for every single dismantling of democracy. It’s terrorism, child porn, file sharing, and organized crime. You cannot fight these by dismantling civil liberties – they’re just used as convenient excuses.

We knew that this was the next step in the cat-and-mouse game over privacy, right? It starts with the government believing they have a right to interfere into any one of your seven privacies if they want to and find it practical. The next step, of course, is that the citizens protect themselves from snooping – at which point some bureaucrat will confuse the government’s ability to snoop on citizen’s lives for a right to snoop on citizen’s lives at any time, and create harsh punishments for any citizens who try to keep a shred of their privacy. This is not a remotely dystopic scenario; as we see, it has already happened in the UK.