{"id":338,"date":"2006-07-10T08:39:16","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T08:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=338"},"modified":"2006-07-10T08:39:16","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T08:39:16","slug":"what-do-you-think-is-in-your-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"What do you think is in YOUR file?"},"content":{"rendered":"

MI5 has secret dossiers on one in 160 adults<\/font><\/p>\n

The Government was accused last night of hoarding information about people who pose no danger to this country, after it emerged that MI5 holds secret files on 272,000 individuals – a staggering one in 160 adults.<\/p>\n

MPs and civil-rights campaigners said resources should be concentrated on combating genuine threats – such as Islamic terrorism – rather than storing personal and political data about innocent citizens.<\/p>\n

Figures released by the Home Office last week reveal that another 53,000 files are held about organisations, but 110,000 files have been destroyed since Labour came to power in 1997.<\/p>\n

The information was obtained by Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, who believes he was the target of MI5 surveillance in the Eighties because of his activities as an environmental protester.<\/p>\n

Five years ago he won a High Court ruling giving him access to his file, which ended the security services’ blanket exemption from the Data Protection Act.<\/p>\n

Last night, Mr Baker said: ‘I don’t believe there are 272,000 people in this country who are subversive or potentially subversive. It suggests to me that there are files being held for not very good reasons.<\/p>\n

‘We want the security services to be effective. We don’t want them going down blind alleys and wasting their resources on people who are no threat to the country.’<\/p>\n

Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil rights group Liberty, said: ‘We need to be sure that MI5 officers are not keeping files just for the sake of it.<\/p>\n

‘Resources should be concentrated on gathering information on those who pose a real threat to this country.’<\/p>\n

But intelligence expert Rupert Allason believes information should never be thrown away.<\/p>\n

He said: ‘A security agency is only as good as its files and it should never give up a personal file – even when somebody dies.<\/p>\n

‘It is enormously important for agents running a current operation to be able to look back 40 or 50 years and see links and connections.’<\/p>\n

A Home Office spokesman said: ‘We are not prepared to comment any further than the information given in the answers to the parliamentary questions.’ […]<\/span><\/p>\n

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Astonishing isnt it? Keystone Kops in full effect, and it betrays the true nature and agenda of this form of government; they want to create files on everyone<\/strong> just because they can<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Rupert Allason is wrong about keeping files. What needs to be done is to remember the last 40 or 50 years of foreign policy, and how it has gone disasterously wrong. Had this been done, no government would have gone into Iraq, because it would have been abundantly clear from the historical record that these actions always end in death and disaster.<\/p>\n

MPs and civil-rights campaigners said resources should be concentrated on combating genuine threats – such as Islamic terrorism – rather than storing personal and political data about innocent citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Would those bee the same nincompoop MPs that unanimously voted to go into Iraq? Those MPs are the genuine threat to the British population, those idiots who voted again and again for every illiberal, morally repugnant piece of legislation over the last five years because they are ignorant, mindless drunkards, dullards and jackasses.<\/p>\n

And as for those well intentioned ‘civil liberties campaigners’ lets call a spade a spade; they are nothing more than impotent professional cry babies who get rolled out to present a case (poorly) whenever a new measure is about to be introduced, who lack the creativity to make anything real happen, lack the power to stop a single piece of legislation and under whose watch, London has become a prison of CCVT cameras, all without a single call to disobedience or action, where such action would be rallied around and followed enthusiastically by the fed up bee hive residents of this overheated and opressed city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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