Britain is lithering down the road towards a police state

[spartan]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2253033,00.html


The machine is out of control. Personal surveillance in Britain is so extensive that no democratic oversight is remotely plausible. Some 800 organisations, including the police, the revenue, local and central government, demanded (and almost always got) 253,000 intrusions on citizen privacy in the last recorded year, 2006. This is way beyond that of any other country in the free world.

Yet again another great article from the Guardian newspaper and Simon Jenkins.

Thoughts?

[Holden Caulfield]

1984 anybody?
i know that we are under constant survailance and this is against civil liberties and is bad, and holding time without trail is bad

i dont think we are a police state when our bobbies go round in day glow and community support officers get abuse of dumb chavvy kids and 'dont have the right' to even search them, take them to the station etc..

i agree but i think its being taken a bit out of proportion, its hardly like Russia,
are you scared of our police?