I feel like every time I turn by back, the UK government starts planning another disaster waiting to happen. The latest proposal is to create a centralized email and phone activity database. This is not a good idea.

The balance of power between the individual and the state has drifted in the past few years towards the state having unprecedented power. Couple this with a media controlled democracy, we are vulnerable to a charismatic leader being elected by popular support and then refusing to listen to their constituents and then refusing to relinquish power. It is already illegal to protest outside parliament without permission. Any dissenters can be isolated using the surveillance apparatus established by previous administrations for your “safety”.

“There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” (to borrow from Douglas Adams)

Be more concerned with the scenario of sliding into totalitarianism and less with the near negligibly small possibility of being injured or killed by terrorists. What we need is DEcentralization.

AC1