There’s no hiding place as spy HQ plans to see all

Intelligence chiefs want access to all communications made in the UK, but they face a fight

Every call you make, every e-mail you send, every website you visit - I’ll be watching you. 

That is the hope of Sir David Pepper who, as the director of GCHQ, the government’s secret eavesdropping agency in Cheltenham, is plotting the biggest surveillance system ever created in Britain. 

From his office in the agency’s famous “doughnut” building, Pepper is masterminding an innocent-sounding project called the Interception Modernisation Programme. 

The scope of the project - classified top secret - is said by officials to be so vast that it will dwarf the estimated £5 billion ministers have set aside for the identity cards programme. It is intended to fight terrorism and crime. Civil liberties groups, however, say it poses an unprecedented intrusion into ordinary citizens’ lives. 

Aimed at placing a “live tap” on every electronic communication in Britain, it will dwarf other “big brother” surveillance projects such as the number plate recognition system and the spread of CCTV. 

Pepper and his opposite number at MI6, Sir John Scarlett, are facing opposition from mandarins in the Treasury and Cabinet Office who fear both its cost and ethical implications. 

The spy bosses say a central database is essential to “capture” the array of communications between terrorists planning to attack Britain. Draft e-mails, chatroom discussions and internet browsing on encrypted jihadist websites are the preferred forums for Al-Qaeda cells to plan their attacks, they say. However, other officials and many in the business and academic community are wary. 

A spokesman for the information commissioner, Richard Thomas, said yesterday that this summer he had called for a public debate about government proposals for the state to retain people’s internet and phone records. 

“The commissioner warned that it is likely that such a scheme would be a step too far for the British way of life. Proposals that threaten such intrusion into people’s lives must be properly debated,” the spokesman said. 

Despite the lack of public debate, Pepper’s officials have been aggressively marketing his plans in a round of White-hall briefings over the past few weeks. 

One of their charts depicts a steep upward line showing the amount of electronic communications data that are being “captured” in the databases of hundreds of private telephone companies and internet service providers. But future projections show a sharp fall in the amount of communications data firms can, or are willing to, retain. 

If this information is not centrally stored, it will disappear, making it impossible for police and intelligence agents to reconstruct the history of so-called “friendship trees” between members of terrorist cells. 

The sheer scale of electronic communications today is mind-boggling. Last year 57 billion text messages were sent in the UK, up from 1 billion in 1999. The number of broadband internet connections has grown from just 330,000 in 2001 to 18m in 2007. And each day 3 billion e-mails are sent - 35,000 every second. Somewhere in that mass of data, terrorists are communicating with each other about their next attack. 

At the moment the data are spread across temporary storage sites held by hundreds of private firms. To agents and police trying to detect or reconstruct what MI5 calls terrorist “attack planning”, it’s like looking for a needle in a million haystacks. 

But there are mounting concerns at the Treasury about the costs of Pepper’s project. According to Richard Clayton, a security expert at Cambridge University, the system will require the insertion of “thousands” of black box probes into the country’s computer and telephone networks. 

Known as Deep Packet Inspection equipment, these probes will “steal” the data, analyse and decode the information and then route it direct to a government-run database. 

No one yet knows exactly how to ensure police and intelligence agencies do not abuse their access to the database. continues here

Do you still believe we live in a free country, do you, even as the evidence mounts that we do not, do you like so many purported nationalists, use the supposed bogeyman of Al-Qaeda, this mythical network, gripping the world in its terrible fist, to further supposed nationalism. As a child, I watched Ian Fleming’s creation James Bond battle against SPECTRE, a transnational organisation intent on destroying or at least altering the west, it appears I was not the only one.

Are we mad, stupid, devoid of our senses to believe such rubbish, is it not the case that the Muslim east is also under attack, by the same avaricious reprehensible cartel as we. Is not their culture, people and territory as under attack as ours, yet to believe the claims of a supra-national entity, an organisation on a par with the fictional SPECTRE, or as Mr Fleming wrote it SMERSH is to be quite, quite mad.

Yet millions believe it. Literally millions, we let the real monsters begin assembling their dark state, their global prison and we say nothing, “its them Mohammedans”, of course it is, so lets let them spy on us, build walls around our very heads and laughingly say we have freedom. Lets kneel to tyranny, herald in a quite terrible age, an age when all races and creeds are harnessed to finance, I much prefer nationalism, respect for all within their own countries, finance working in service of the people, instead of for an elite and freedom of the citizen, protected by a benevolent state.

Where nationalism hurts, its bug-bear, where it rubs, is when we say that the nation should come before the individual that freedom is granted, only so long as you follow the law. Nationalism places responsibility upon everyone’s shoulders for the good of all, a quite simple analogy is this, you live in a multi-occupancy block of flats, should you play your music constantly at high volume it affects all, it wakes up children, distresses the old, tires workers and creates disharmony, far better then to turn it to a reasonable volume, a volume fair to all.

It is true, that in some cases the individual may lose out, their rights may come second to that of society, is this wrong, is it the evil they tell us it is, is this not natural, does not the right of the family come before that of the naughty child. Should the criminal come then before the victim, should the parasitical asylum seeker, come before a member of the indigenous population, I say they should not. Nationalism works in synch with nature, it is not perfect nothing is, even nature, however, it is a fairer system, it strives to truly benefit the many, rather than simply the few.

Why should the law-abiding cower from the thug, bar their windows and be fearful of others, why should many be assailed by hooligans in their own neighbourhoods and yes, sometimes their own homes. Why I ask, should the asylum seeker be permitted access, to milk this land, when those who made it are ignored, why should supposed “human rights” be such a brutal tool. Nationalism stems from the family, it is a natural ripple, family, people, country, world, it does not seek to imprison, spy upon or harness the people to the banker it truly works for its people.

Have no doubt that nationalism can heal this country, this continent and yes this world, it can curtail evil to a very great level, shine a light into shadow, it cannot cure all ills, cannot prevent all unfairness but it can try. The left adopt the mantle of humanitarianism, freedom, yet history not only tells us but tells us urgently, to beware, to contest their evil least the killing fields return. I watch it grow this coming prison, filled with unremitting dread, with a tremendous fear, I see all around me ominous signs, I watch as the voice of the people is sewn up tight but most of all I pity the children.

You see I don’t have to do this, write this, read by so few, I could live out my life, kneel to them, forget truth, ignore what is to come, I could have not a care, lose no sleep, place self above people, as so many do. I could quite simply just walk by the victims, as they are pushed along by proud parents, as they play carefree in the park, reality has not gripped them and evil has not yet won. Yet the age, the world they will know, will not be free, even as we knew it, the spy shall be everywhere, freedom an illusion and escape impossible.

It is not the Muslim, their grievance is but a symptom, the real monster is already among us, it governs us, rules us and directs us down a most terrible path, for all that, this growing evil lives in fear, its plan is still as yet unaccomplished, it can still be thwarted, by good people, brave people, aware people, by nationalism. Don’t believe the hype, this is not a film, there is no SMERSH-like organisation, this clash has been caused by an elite to favour only an elite, again our children merely cannon fodder and a world drenched with their blood.

Already I can hear the gnashing teeth of nu-nationalists those primed by the state to lead us in a given direction, why I should be attacking those Muslims, that and only that is the way, I should not even attempt to extol true nationalism, the real deal, instead I should lie down with the wolf like a naïve lamb. True nationalism recognises truth, the Muslim is a creature of the east and we are of the west never the twain should mix, there would be no bombs in London, no need to imprison the populace, just freedom and respect for all. 14

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