Just the other day I heard or read someone say that the USA was starting to look and sound like China where Civil Rights are concerned. Our world has changed so much in the last 5 yrs, that China/HongKong are beginning to look like us instead.
HONG KONG, Aug. 6 -- The Hong Kong legislature passed a law Sunday that allows the government, with the permission of a judge, to use telephone wiretaps, e-mail scans and other surveillance techniques in the name of public security.
Eighteen legislators left the chamber to protest the bill after almost 200 amendments they had put forward were voted down. The Interception of Communications and Surveillance Bill passed on a vote of 32 to 0 after a four-day marathon debate.
It's a short piece, so click here and ask your self where you heard all this before.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
OK, it starts out with Domestic Spying, where the Target is never told they are a Target, it's been called "the biggest threat to civil liberties" , and acouple hundred amendments to stop or fix the law were blocked. Sure rings a fucking bell to me. Sounds like a combination of the PatriotFarce Act, Bushes Illegal Spying on American Citizens, and Our Do Nothing Republican'ts Congress. Lastly there is this that sounds like I have heard it somewhere before.
The Democratic Party, the major opposition in the legislature, described the passage of the bill as "the beginning of the dark age in Hong Kong."
Yeah, I know the fucking feeling.