Britain’s Orwellian nightmare

The UK is allegedly the most recorded populous on the face of the planet with the average Londoner being caught on CCTV three hundred times a day, and apparently one CCTV camera for every 12 people in Britain. The Guardian recently reported that thousands of CCTV cameras across Britain have now been converted to read number plates using auto number plate recognition technology and that nationally roadside cameras are now reading fifty million number plates a day, and that the details of these “recorded” journeys will be kept on record for five years. The scary thing about surveillance techniques applied, apparently put in place to protect us from crime is that they are frequently and systematically being used to control minute aspects of communal living, with councils using CCTV and other surveillance apparatus to record and fine litterbugs, parking offences, bin men, shopkeepers and in Derby even noisy children this is all perfectly legal under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000 an act allowing councils “the right to place residents and businesses under surveillance, trace telephone and email accounts and even send staff on undercover missions.” an act originally introduced to fight crime and terrorism being used as a weapon against ordinary citizens.

You are not even safe in your own home, the time when an Englishman’s home was his castle are long gone, the powers of entry act allows for “266 powers allowing officials to enter your home, and not all require a warrant.” Ranging from your electricity service supplier and landlord to officers searching for foreign bees (yes bees).
So when is it going to stop, what will it take for the average everyday citizen to stand up and say yes I do value my civil liberties and this has to stop? This is a country where students can be arrested and interrogated without charge for six days for no discernable offense and no one blinks an eyelid, soon it will be perfectly legal to detain someone for forty two days whilst the police and security services attempt to make a case against them, what happened to innocent until proven guilty? The right of habeas corpus enshrined in the Magna Carta in 1215 has just been repealed, the government of this country is literally wiping their arse with the Magna Carta and there is barely even a whiff of dissent in the air. Hello.....anyone there?