Emergency laws

[tractor]

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Although to be fair we don't know this. Due to secret trials and suchlike I wonder whether the authorities are reeling them in in their hundreds, so preventing many terrorist attacks?

They are certainly not stopping them buying tickets for Syria and Iraq lol - perhaps there is some method there

[Sysman]

The ancient Romans classified people such as aggressive tax avoiders, price fixers etc. as wagers of economic war against the state. I await similar measures, retrospectively applied.

Price fixers, eh?

Can we look forward to banks, telcos and energy companies getting clobbered?

[Mich the Tester]

Price fixers, eh?

Can we look forward to banks, telcos and energy companies getting clobbered?

Oh do stop being silly.

[Sysman]

Oh do stop being silly.

One can dream.

Oops, tea break over. Time to deal with the brown stuff again.

[Old Greg]

Price fixers, eh?

Can we look forward to banks, telcos and energy companies getting clobbered?

Of course not. The City of Rome (which was heavily dependent on Egyptian grain imports) was vulnerable to price fixing by consortia of grain merchants who would artificially restrict supply.

[vetran]

Of course not. The City of Rome (which was heavily dependent on Egyptian grain imports) was vulnerable to price fixing by consortia of grain merchants who would artificially restrict supply.

so nothing new then?

[Old Greg]

so nothing new then?

A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains forever.

The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
and hastens to the place where it rises.

The wind blows to the south
and goes around to the north;
around and around goes the wind,
and on its circuits the wind returns.

All streams run to the sea,
but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
there they flow again.

All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.

What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there a thing of which it is said,
“See, this is new”?
It has been already
in the ages before us.

There is no remembrance of former things,
nor will there be any remembrance
of later things yet to be among those who come after.

Ecclesiastes 1:4-11

[SueEllen]

Although to be fair we don't know this. Due to secret trials and suchlike I wonder whether the authorities are reeling them in in their hundreds, so preventing many terrorist attacks?

Nah they just want to find out who the likes of you and me are, so they can harass then arrest us when we make up some truthful but mad conspiracy theory......

[MicrosoftBob]

Emergency laws to monitor phone and internet records 'to stop terrorists' - Telegraph

Oddly they never seem to stop any terrorists. Instead they are used to harass the plebs.

All the terrorists will do now is switch to something else - communicating by letter.

Bomb in the dartfotrd tunnel anyone?

I saw an EOD bot by dartford tunnel last year as I reached by the toll boths just as they went into lockdown over a bomb scare so it's a possibility

Also they've been doing this snooping for a long time, it's just all the wikileaks stuff has made them try and legalise their activities

[SueEllen]

Also they've been doing this snooping for a long time, it's just all the wikileaks stuff has made them try and legalise their activities

Thing is if we march against it in London they will set the water cannon on us after kettling us in.