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[FYI] UK: New Labours autoritaere Machtinstinkte
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- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 20:22:11 +0200
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7 December 1999
The New York Times, December 7, 1999
Big Brother Pounces
By Anthony Lewis
In a book on a long-running civil conflict, the author briefly
describes how his government uses surveillance systems to trace
suspected enemies of the state. He is arrested, charged with a
serious crime, his house ransacked and papers seized.
Did this happen in China, or perhaps Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore? No, it
happened in Tony Blair's Britain. It is an astonishing story, and it
discloses a dirty little secret: The Blair government has
authoritarian instincts.
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