> After all, can a government that is willing to go to these lengths
> (some might say they already do) tolerate people communicating without
> being totally monitored and traffic-analysed?
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7409593.stm
>
> For the 'nothing to hide...' brigade:
>

> But in the face of this, our wonderful soi-disant 'national society'
> has already linkled Amateur Radio with terrorism in the official mind
> (nice one, chaps), so it simply is unsustainable in this climate for
> people to have unfettered communications links. After all, if the
> police can be bothered to record details of every car that enters or
> leaves Manchester (currently, but coming to a city near you soon),
> Amateur Radio can't expect to carry on as it is.
>

>Amatuer Radio?
>
>Did you not mean Armature Radio?
>
>73 de G3NYY

>
>
> After all, can a government that is willing to go to these lengths
> (some might say they already do) tolerate people communicating without
> being totally monitored and traffic-analysed?
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7409593.stm
>
> For the 'nothing to hide...' brigade:

> After all, can a government that is willing to go to these lengths
> (some might say they already do) tolerate people communicating without
> being totally monitored and traffic-analysed?
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7409593.stm
>

>
>

>> After all, can a government that is willing to go to these lengths
>> (some might say they already do) tolerate people communicating without
>> being totally monitored and traffic-analysed?
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7409593.stm
>>

>
>"The Last Enemy" springs to mind!
>

>>> After all, can a government that is willing to go to these lengths
>>> (some might say they already do) tolerate people communicating without
>>> being totally monitored and traffic-analysed?
>>>
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7409593.stm
>>>

>>
>>"The Last Enemy" springs to mind!
>>

>
> Apologies for being dim, but I can't quite see the relevance of the
> story of a shot-down (and horribly disfigured) Battle of Britain
> fighter pilot to the news item mentioned.
>

>>>> After all, can a government that is willing to go to these lengths
>>>> (some might say they already do) tolerate people communicating without
>>>> being totally monitored and traffic-analysed?
>>>>
>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7409593.stm
>>>>

>>>
>>>"The Last Enemy" springs to mind!
>>>

>>
>> Apologies for being dim, but I can't quite see the relevance of the
>> story of a shot-down (and horribly disfigured) Battle of Britain
>> fighter pilot to the news item mentioned.
>>

>
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/lastenemy/

>
> After all, can a government that is willing to go to these lengths
> (some might say they already do) tolerate people communicating without
> being totally monitored and traffic-analysed?
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7409593.stm
> For the 'nothing to hide...' brigade:
> A few years ago the phone kept ringing here at various times of the
> day. The person on the other end had a heavy NI accent, and the phone
> number was from there too. The message was always the same: "Hi, is
> Bill there?". "No-one called Bill here, you have the wrong number".
> This went on for several days, then stopped.
> For those too dim to work it out, this *might* have represented a
> characteristic of an operation being set up - all calls to and from NI
> being monitored.

>