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Do the GCHQ eavesdropping allegation bother you?

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DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 9 Jun 2013 19:53

IF they want to be bored senesless read my FB etc., I do not care

What we should now all do is post really innocent threads which happen to contain the words'terrorist' 'bombs' and squeeze in an innocent remark about the good old 'USA'

That will screw them no end as these are trigger words for the programmes which monitor emails etc.,

We could make the system crash - people power.......

So a sentence along the lines of

When I was a kid I was a terrorist, I terrorised all my neighbours with water bombs and because of this my parents refused to take me to the USA for a holiday.



:-D :-D :-D

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 9 Jun 2013 18:52

Law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from the British intelligence services, the Foreign Secretary William Hague said, and he also said that reports the UK's eavesdropping centre GCHQ had circumvented the law to gather data on British citizens were nonsense.

Surely our Foreign Secretary would not be economical with the truth - there again it has been said that pigs might fly ;-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22832263

Does this GCHQ eavesdropping allegation bother you - from a personal point of view, as I have nothing to hide, it does not bother me, as long as what they are doing is legal. However in saying that, I am concerned that this eavesdropping that is allegedly taking place may be illegal as it does not appear to have the consent of Parliament :-|

And what an opt out the Foreign Secretary has tomorrow when he makes a statement on this to the House of Commons, as all he will probably say time after time is - I cannot answer that on the grounds of national security ;-)

I will listen tomorrow to his statement while humming - and the band played believe it if you like :-D

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

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