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Snowden banned from flying to UK

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Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK

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Post by singular »

DanBC wrote: post #17

Why on earth would he want to come to the UK? It's [edit] certainly not the place to be if you want privacy. RIPA (regulation of investigatory powers act) has been abused by local council staff spying on public to see if they live within a school catchment area or within an area qualifying for cheap parking. There are other abuses too. We're bringing in a "snooper's charter" - this is just traffic data and not conten…

   "It's a horrible place to live"
Though we have many problems, please speak for yourself and stay off general comments about the country. Your other points are valid and interesting but you really ruin them with your frankly childish comment - just because you, personally find the entirety of the country horrible doesn't mean that is close to the reality of living here or the experience of everybody else.

Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK

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Post by kryten »

tjmc wrote: post #19
kryten wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the moment, yes. His only other options are: 1. Get from the building to a diplomatically immune car and out of the EU. Not going to happen: the fuzz will snag him the moment he steps out of the door. 2. Wait for a politically sympathetic party is voted in and the extradition rules are changed. Not going to happen: people are too stupid to vote for anything other than "the big two" and if they did, they won't chan…

What about the old magicians trick where 100 people walk in, put on Guy Fawkes masks, then all leave at once in different directions?! I for one hope he gets to take a senate seat in Australia. Under the rules of parliamentary privilege you can say anything in the chamber without risk of prosecution. Imagine he'd have a bit to say...

They invented the machine gun for such circumstances.

Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK

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Post by kryten »

znowi wrote: post #13
kryten wrote: post #4

He'll be fine if he can get to the Ecuadorian Embassy quick enough :) I live in the UK and am utterly disgusted at the pieces of shit that act in our name. You can't vote them out as it's a bipartisan system with two sets of the same ideals. You can't revolt because everyone is too busy staring at Simon Cowel's nefarious trash pumped through our telescreens. You can't speak up because it's illegal. Sit, obey, conform…

Funny, it sounds very similar to the US :) I wonder why :)

Well same turd, rolled in different glitter to be honest.

Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK

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Post by duiker101 »

DanBC wrote: post #17

Why on earth would he want to come to the UK? It's [edit] certainly not the place to be if you want privacy. RIPA (regulation of investigatory powers act) has been abused by local council staff spying on public to see if they live within a school catchment area or within an area qualifying for cheap parking. There are other abuses too. We're bringing in a "snooper's charter" - this is just traffic data and not conten…

It might be that "the neighbor's grass is always greener" but as an Italian living in the UK I think that 98% of the things here are way better. That 2% missing is the climate and the food. I really think the UK is a great place to live but as I said, maybe you hate it because you lived here too much and I love it because I am "relatively" new.

Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK

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Post by epo »

DanBC wrote: post #17

Why on earth would he want to come to the UK? It's [edit] certainly not the place to be if you want privacy. RIPA (regulation of investigatory powers act) has been abused by local council staff spying on public to see if they live within a school catchment area or within an area qualifying for cheap parking. There are other abuses too. We're bringing in a "snooper's charter" - this is just traffic data and not conten…

It's not even remotely a horrible place to live. On the strength of that idiocy I feel confident that you have never been anywhere else and that you have no opinons worth taking seriously. How old are you? 13?

Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK

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Post by shawabawa3 »

DanBC wrote: post #17

Why on earth would he want to come to the UK? It's [edit] certainly not the place to be if you want privacy. RIPA (regulation of investigatory powers act) has been abused by local council staff spying on public to see if they live within a school catchment area or within an area qualifying for cheap parking. There are other abuses too. We're bringing in a "snooper's charter" - this is just traffic data and not conten…

> It's a horrible place to live

Well fuck you too.

Although I do agree with the rest of your post.

Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK

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Post by ck2 »

the notice was not supposed to be seen by the public

I am starting to think the people on the other side of "the public doesn't need to know" enjoy their little fantasy world a little too much.

Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK

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Post by kryten »

DanBC wrote: post #17

Why on earth would he want to come to the UK? It's [edit] certainly not the place to be if you want privacy. RIPA (regulation of investigatory powers act) has been abused by local council staff spying on public to see if they live within a school catchment area or within an area qualifying for cheap parking. There are other abuses too. We're bringing in a "snooper's charter" - this is just traffic data and not conten…

To be fair, all the 14 CCTV cameras on my street (!) have been sprayed, burned or shot.

That's the only crime going on around where I live.

People aren't putting up with this shit any more.

Re: Snowden banned from flying to UK

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Post by mtgx »

ck2 wrote: post #27

the notice was not supposed to be seen by the public I am starting to think the people on the other side of "the public doesn't need to know" enjoy their little fantasy world a little too much.

What do they have to hide, if they've done nothing wrong? I think we should ask them this question everytime they try to keep something secret from the public.

I don't remember who said it recently, but it's the people who need to know everything their government is doing at all times, not the other way around, with the government knowing everything their citizens do, but keeping everything they do secret. We need to turn this around.

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