Something along the lines of if your willing to give up and part of your freedom and liberty so that you are safer from terroism then they are already winning . I may have just horrendously mis-quoted somone but it does neatly sum up my feeling about the goverments bill that will allow GCHQ accsess communications on demand as discribed here www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745.
Communication between me and whoever I choose to talk text email whatever should be mine and private as I am a mainly law abiding citizen and I am concerned that if this article is true then the ability to start proceedings based on guilt of association becomes easier. The ability to tarnish and abuse this form of power to me seems a unnecassary step towards rather than away from Big Brother. For freedom is to be cherished and for a goverment to have the right to take away from those freedoms based on suspicion and fear is contary to all we are sending our troops to fight against in Afghanistan. The "War on terror" should produce more freedoms within the countries fighting against oppresive regimes not less. To sum up a funny poster I saw on a friends' facebook "Support our troops.We will need them to overthrow our goverment" and "A patriot is somone who belives that his country agrees with his country all the time and his goverment some of the time"(again possibly a horrible mis-quote )
The arguement for seems to be it will help with "terrorism counter-intelligence and crime prevention"
So if this is the case why would this not require court approval I'm not suggesting it needs to be an open court but I believe that some sort of judicial review should be in place in order to keep this level of snooping on your own citizens from being abused or used uneccasarily. Time could be a factor here but if this is as I to understand it is for building a profile of those who are likely to do wrong in order to get a warrant to read the people that you suspects emails then I would imagine this is not often a bolt from the blue that cannot wait until a judge reviews the correct papers and signs off on it.
