42 days: UK accelerates slide into police state
Thursday, 12 June 2008 by Mike Gogulskipolice, politics, prison, surveillance | 3 Comments »
It is a principle of English common law that if the State is to arrest someone, it must charge them with a crime in relatively short order, or release them. It is known as the habeas corpus doctrine, and has ...
Panopticon
Thursday, 12 June 2008 by Mike Gogulskiart, surveillance | No Comments »
Graffiti du jour.... Nový Most, Bratislava, Slovakia, 10 June 2008.
Petty Police State UK
Saturday, 31 May 2008 by Mike Gogulskisurveillance | No Comments »
They wouldn't be suspects if they weren't guilty, right? Move along folks, show's over, nothing to see here... From The Times Online: Terror law turns thousands of council officials into spies Thousands of middle managers in local councils are being authorised to spy ...
Broad e-surveillance coming to UK
Tuesday, 20 May 2008 by Mike Gogulskisurveillance | No Comments »
Britons can rest easy knowing that of course it will only be used to find the bad guys... for various and flexible definitions of "bad". Of course. From the Times Online: ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails [caption id="attachment_65" align="alignright" width="250" caption="INGSOC ...
Coming soon to a police state near you: MAIN CORE
Sunday, 18 May 2008 by Mike Gogulskisurveillance | No Comments »
From Cryptogon: The U.S. Government has, almost certainly, established a database and tracking system for something like eight million Americans who have been designated as threats to national security. The system is called MAIN CORE and it is being run under ...
Victoria, BC citizenry to pay $60,000 to brutalized teen
Friday, 16 May 2008 by Mike Gogulskipolice, prison, surveillance | 6 Comments »
Willow Kinloch, then aged 15, got picked up three years ago by the Victoria police for the victimless crime of being drunk in public. For her own protection, or something. Somehow unable to manage taking an intoxicated, frightened young woman back ...
Children wired to control grid in Dallas
Tuesday, 13 May 2008 by Mike Gogulskimind control, police, surveillance | No Comments »
Of course it's only going to be used on the troublemakers, and will never be expanded to all students or all citizens. Of course it's essential to keep a young man wired into the indoctrination camps so euphemistically termed "schools". ...
Britain’s CCTV paranoia boondoggle
Tuesday, 6 May 2008 by Mike Gogulskisurveillance | No Comments »
A photo from my recent trip to the UK. This is in the main hall at Birmingham New Street rail station. In this one room alone I counted no less than 19 CCTV cameras, and that from just standing in ...
