CelticBear’s Musings

Well, first the horrible news.
Human rights watchdog group, Privacy International, which focuses on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations since 1990, has put out its 2007 report on “The State of Privacy”:

♦ Map of Surveillance Societies Around the World

So, some of the very worst surveillance societies include Russia, China, Singapore, Thailand, and of course, the U.K. and the U.S. That site lists the specific reasons why.
Interestingly, Greece is one of the most free and liberal counties out there and unchanging. Most every country is getting worse (Slovenia is getting better). Canada is deteriorating from not too bad to not so great. Germany isn’t doing too bad; I’d certainly would rather live there than in Greece!

On the positive side, the U.K., since Bush’s lapdog Blair’s outing as Prime Minister, has started coming to its senses:

♦ UK declares War on Terror over.

The Director of Public Prosecutions said: ‘We resist the language of warfare, and I think the government has moved on this. It no longer uses this sort of language.”

London is not a battlefield, he said.

“The people who were murdered on July 7 were not the victims of war. The men who killed them were not soldiers,” Macdonald said. “They were fantasists, narcissists, murderers and criminals and need to be responded to in that way.”

Get rid of Bush, and hope Hilary Clinton nor any other Republican gets elected, and maybe the U.S. will have a chance of getting its senses back.

Doubtful.