Re:GCHQ can monitor MPs' communications, court rules
by dragonwriter on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:47AM
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> The easiest way will probably be to define a new "class" of citizen, who is above all of the Surveillance, which is for the cattle.
Various parliamentary immunities and exemptions already exist; extending these to include enhanced protection against surveillance would not be defining a new class of citizen. To the extent such immunities create a new class of citizen, those existing immunities and exemptions have already created it.
And, in any case, this is the United Kingdom we're talking about, a country whose government acts in the name of a monarch and whose parliament consists, in addition to a house of elected members, a house consisting of "Lords Spiritual and Temporal". Its hardly as if differing classes of citizens is a novel concept -- its already a rather overt feature of the British system.
Various parliamentary immunities and exemptions already exist; extending these to include enhanced protection against surveillance would not be defining a new class of citizen. To the extent such immunities create a new class of citizen, those existing immunities and exemptions have already created it.
And, in any case, this is the United Kingdom we're talking about, a country whose government acts in the name of a monarch and whose parliament consists, in addition to a house of elected members, a house consisting of "Lords Spiritual and Temporal". Its hardly as if differing classes of citizens is a novel concept -- its already a rather overt feature of the British system.