I had not expected to hear Duncan Campbell live, when I signed up to attend the third Open Rights Conference. Was I glad I went!
I described my experience fairly detailed on this blog post.
Here it is important that I spoke to him in person, after we had exchanged a few emails. For he had played a major role in Operation Ore – the paedophile investigation starting in 1999, after the Cleveland child abuse Scandal in 1987.
What is even more important is that his TV Series “Secret Society” in 1987 was like a ‘deja vu’ of what has just been announced: NSA Prism surveillance downplayed by UK Government.
Obviously, the secret internet and phone surveillance that NSA and Prism stand for, is a different kind of abuse than the Secrecy of Family Courts. But the marvellous comments illustrate the deep unhappiness and suspicion over what leads to foster ‘care’ and forced adoptions, after children have been snatched, rather than after establishing evidence for taking into ‘care’!
Hence, we lodged EU Parliament: Abolish Forced Adoptions without Parental Consent and are compiling a dossier of online evidence. Please sign / comment / share / promote, if you haven’t done so already.
Meanwhile, we wonder why institutions have such a hard time being open and transparent…
However, the Law Gazette publishes here that Contempt jailings should never be secret, leading judges warn. Well, well, why has it taken the blogosphere to be born and THAT long to curb this invitation for abuse of power???
Related articles
- Boundless Informant: The NSA’s Secret Tool To Track Global Surveillance Data (huffingtonpost.com)
- OPEN Rights Conference: the Right to Know and Secrecy as the Cloak of ‘reality distortion fields’ (3d-metrics.me)
- Why do governments get Internet surveillance so wrong? (boingboing.net)
- Obama “Welcomes” the Debate His Secrecy Makes Impossible (fdlaction.firedoglake.com)
- Blanket Surveillance. Total Secrecy. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (techcrunch.com)
- Greenwald: US wants to destroy privacy, Obama threatens journalists (polizeros.com)
- Daniel Morgan’s murder: this stain on our criminal justice system remains | Duncan Campbell (guardian.co.uk)
