I smell a rat

Posted on February 18, 2016 by KG

NZ Herald headline:
‘About 1 per cent of New Zealand children have risk factors that make them far more likely to suffer hardship — and to target help to them the Government wants more access to New Zealanders’ private information…’
And there will be plenty of naive clowns who will go along with this because…wait for it..”it’s for the chiiiildren”.
100% lose even more privacy for the sake of 1%. Not a good deal by any rational standard, even if you believe the lying bastards’ assurances concerning data security.

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8 Responses to I smell a rat

  1. Yokel says:
    February 19, 2016 at 00:53

    KG, you are right to smell a rat. A big one, and well on the way to decomposing!

    Here are a few more links to the great rush to jettison privacy:
    Ten months ago:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11591937/Now-Tories-can-push-through-snoopers-charter-says-May.html

    Two days ago:
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/17/five_eyes_must_purge_terrorists_from_web_theresa_may/
    and
    https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-international-action-needed-to-tackle-terrorism

    The rants of a small UK ISP owner on the topic:
    http://www.revk.uk/search/label/IPBILL

    And finally remember that the UK the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) gave local authorities the power to spy on residents to determine if they really lived within a popular school’s catchment area or whether they properly cleared up after their dogs! BUT it was sold to the public as “because Terrorism!”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Powers_Act_2000
    and
    https://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/research-and-reports/

    You are dead right, every power given to the State WILL be abused. I would argue that it is intended to be abused because of the way that after an Islamic excess of some sort they talk about cracking down on extremism, clearly intending the populace to understand that they mean Islamic extremism. But funnily enough the wording is so vague that anyone they don’t like can be an extremist, and any action other than sheeple-like, is an extremist act. Clearly not enough of us have seen through that totalitarian smokescreen yet.

    • KG says:
      February 19, 2016 at 01:19

      ” Clearly not enough of us have seen through that totalitarian smokescreen yet.”
      Absolutely true, Yokel. The islamists have been very useful for the totalitarian bastards in the West, haven’t they?

  2. Yokel says:
    February 19, 2016 at 02:27

    “The islamists have been very useful for the totalitarian bastards in the West, haven’t they?” And it all happened by chance, didn’t it? Who could have seen that one coming (except that they run foul of Godwin’s Law)?

    And for a change, instead of total surveillance, how about total censorship:
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/16/uk_online_age_verification/

    Any excuse appears to be a good one in their eyes, and “Thinkkk of the CCHHIIIILLLDDRREEEENNNN” doesn’t seem to have been done to death quite yet.

    • KG says:
      February 19, 2016 at 05:14

      No privacy+cashless society=slavery.
      Yet still people refuse to see that, don’t think about it at all or regard it as paranoia! http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_unsure.gif

      • The Gantt Guy says:
        February 19, 2016 at 13:24

        Dan Bongino has been hammering this fact. He specifically mentioned the cashless society yesterday, in the context that governments hate cash transactions because they can’t clip the taxation ticket at every stop along the way.

        The Renegade Republican has become one of my must-catch podcasts…

        https://www.conservativereview.com/authors/dan-bongino

        • Yokel says:
          February 19, 2016 at 22:00

          Agreed that governments love/need/must increase taxation at every possible opportunity as they’ve overspent the next generation’s taxation by a country mile, but I suggest that is only an excuse and only of the same order as thinking of chiildren!
          I believe that the real object is the surveillance and control that it brings.

          • Bo Chandler says:
            February 19, 2016 at 23:15

            Considering most governments around the world have bribed their way to totalitarianism with their national credit cards you can be certain that the main motive for a cashless society is so that the governments can do what Cypress did for its banks and “bail in” their citizen’s money to prop up their very government.

      • Robertv says:
        February 20, 2016 at 03:37

        Here is where you see how stupid (progressive) politicians are because at the end they too will be enslaved by their own laws.

        http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_cool.gif

        In Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Russia only the man at the top was free from suspicion. The rest were cannon fodder.

        If it looks like a rat walks like a rat squeaks like a rat and smells like a rat it most likely is a rat.