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[Nickbat]

Lisa Greenwood, an office administrator at the Department of Children, Schools and Families, posted an anonymous message on the internet at the height of the furore over abuse of the second home allowances.

Miss Greenwood, from Widnes in Cheshire, had been angered by Miss Blears's ability to avoid paying capital gains tax on the sale of her designated second home.

On May 13, Miss Greenwood wrote on the internet of Miss Blears: "How dare you wave a cheque about on national TV, saying that you are sorry.

"You are only sorry that you have been caught. You are a disgrace (including all the other honourable members). Why haven't you been sacked?"

The anonymous posting appeared on They Work For You, a political website, but was traced to Miss Greenwood's work email account.

So, it would seem that if you criticise the government, someone, somewhere is tracing your IP address, will identify you, and will seek retribution...

Miss Greenwood has been sacked.

Full story at the DT:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/cabinet-expenses/5750511/MPs-expenses-Civil-servant-sacked-for-calling-Hazel-Blears-a-disgrace-in-anonymous-internet-post.html

Where have our civil liberties gone?

 

[albitz]

Old Joe Stalin will never be dead while Gordon and his buddies are alive.

[scottyt]

sorry to all the good people on here for the language but F***ING W*****S if any off you are caught fiddling the system like tax/vat they will throw the book at you demanding this that and the next thing and having that that person SACKED for voicing there opinion and for having the courage to stand up and say it when it was there doing in the first place makes me sick in the direction we seem to be heading

what next???

[Nickbat]

sorry to all the good people on here for the language but F***ING W*****S if any off you are caught fiddling the system like tax/vat they will throw the book at you demanding this that and the next thing and having that that person SACKED for voicing there opinion and for having the courage to stand up and say it when it was there doing in the first place makes me sick in the direction we seem to be heading

what next???

I'm the only one...and I accept your apology! 

Seriously, though, your right in pointing out that this indicates a general trend in the way the country is headed. It IS scary. I am sure there are people out there who are genuinely afraid of expressing their views on the net. 

You may have noticed that I'm not in that category. 

[albitz]

The government which persecutes people soviet style who voice dissent, and at the same time sends fine young men off to fight and die in conflicts in order to defend freedom and democracy,the stench of hypocrisy is sickening.

[Nickbat]

The government which persecutes people soviet style who voice dissent, and at the same time sends fine young men off to fight and die in conflicts in order to defend freedom and democracy,the stench of hypocrisy is sickening.

With another two of our lads dead in Afghanistan today, your comment is bang on the nail, Albs.

[crazyjoetavola]

Lisa Greenwood, an office administrator at the Department of Children, Schools and Families, posted an anonymous message on the internet at the height of the furore over abuse of the second home allowances.

Miss Greenwood, from Widnes in Cheshire, had been angered by Miss Blears's ability to avoid paying capital gains tax on the sale of her designated second home.

On May 13, Miss Greenwood wrote on the internet of Miss Blears: "How dare you wave a cheque about on national TV, saying that you are sorry.

"You are only sorry that you have been caught. You are a disgrace (including all the other honourable members). Why haven't you been sacked?"

The anonymous posting appeared on They Work For You, a political website, but was traced to Miss Greenwood's work email account.

So, it would seem that if you criticise the government, someone, somewhere is tracing your IP address, will identify you, and will seek retribution...

Miss Greenwood has been sacked.

Full story at the DT:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/cabinet-expenses/5750511/MPs-expenses-Civil-servant-sacked-for-calling-Hazel-Blears-a-disgrace-in-anonymous-internet-post.html

Where have our civil liberties gone?

 

....passed, with great distain, through the bowels of New Labour.

Make no mistake Nick, the surveillance infrastructure now developed is capable of tracing each and every one of us, and our communications, to a time and place the details of which should remain within our own private domain.

Uncle Joe, Honecker and Krenz would be proud indeed.

[Toby]

With increasing worry I have followed events the last few years.

George Orwell didn't just write a book, he predicted the future....

[Gareth Lewis]

With increasing worry I have followed events the last few years.

George Orwell didn't just write a book, he predicted the future....

I think that should now read the present!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

That frankly is of no surprise, as I know everything in this electronic era is traceable and is / can be monitored by government "agencies".

Don't be fooled by any dis-information given out by certain representatives of those "agencies" and what they can or cannot do.

They are watching, listening and waiting.  'Smiley's people' are living and breathing, enjoying the new 'security before liberty' climate they now thrive in.

Having signed the Official Secrets Act I'll say no more for my protection, before they start banging on my door!!

[Gareth Lewis]

That frankly is of no surprise, as I know everything in this electronic era is traceable and is / can be monitored by government "agencies".

Don't be fooled by any dis-information given out by certain representatives of those "agencies" and what they can or cannot do.

They are watching, listening and waiting.  'Smiley's people' are living and breathing, enjoying the new 'security before liberty' climate they now thrive in.

Having signed the Official Secrets Act I'll say no more for my protection, before they start banging on my door!!

I signed the Official Secrets Act when I took on a job some years ago. However this "action" of signing is only a reminder that in fact we are ALL bound by the Official Secrets Act anyway as it is an Act of Parliament.

[crazyjoetavola]

That frankly is of no surprise, as I know everything in this electronic era is traceable and is / can be monitored by government "agencies".

Don't be fooled by any dis-information given out by certain representatives of those "agencies" and what they can or cannot do.

They are watching, listening and waiting.  'Smiley's people' are living and breathing, enjoying the new 'security before liberty' climate they now thrive in.

Having signed the Official Secrets Act I'll say no more for my protection, before they start banging on my door!!

I signed the Official Secrets Act when I took on a job some years ago. However this "action" of signing is only a reminder that in fact we are ALL bound by the Official Secrets Act anyway as it is an Act of Parliament.

....some of us might well say.......


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