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Re:Politicians call for UK security services to be given gre... by anon1385 on Friday June 14, 2013 @09:11AM (#5879666)
I think it is a lot simpler than that. The murder of Lee Rigby gave the authoritarians a chance to start talking about the importance of surveillance. The usual suspects started talking about it within hours of the murder, and that was long before any of the NSA leaks. For example, this article is from the very next day following the murder, not even 24 hours later and the name of the victim wasn't even known publicly at this point: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/may/23/woolwich-nick-clegg...

I think the current letter is just an attempt to double down on the rhetoric. It's probably prompted by the NSA leaks but not in a "this is our chance to hoodwink them!" kind of way, more "we are loosing the narrative we need to remind them all to be scared".

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Re:Politicians call for UK security services to be given gre... by Silhouette on Friday June 14, 2013 @01:58PM (#5881345)
"we are loosing the narrative we need to remind them all to be scared"

Irony for the day: There is well-known term for someone who attempts to effect political change by making the general public fear the violent consequences of not acceding.

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