Lockheed Martin brings you the UK Census

[TonyGosling]

Subject: Runnymede Gazette - 2011 Census
I have stripped out everything else from the RG and you may already have seen some of the material, but not all together:

RUNNYMEDE GAZETTE
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
FEBRUARY 2011
CONTENTS
Previous Cases of Missing Data

John Newell

2011 Census ... Legal and EU Background

Dave Barnby and Anne Palmer

To All True English Men and Women

Albert Burgess

New EU Mass Surveillance Project Revealed

Marc Glendenning;Democracy Movement, via John Newell

Dealing with Dissent ... the View from the Authorities

Jonathan Moses

Sukey

Nathan Allonby

Inside the Anti-Kettling HQ

Patrick Kingsley (Guardian) (via Nathan Allonby) Egypt’s Revolution-Creative Destruction For A ‘Greater Middle East’? ... The G8 Map of Washington’s Greater Middle East extends right to the borders of China and Russia and West to Morocco

F. William Engdahl; Global Research, February 7, 2011

Public Rally; Leaving the European Union

Campaign for an Independent Britain Eurorealist; February Edition Derek Bennett Latest Resistance Newsletter Brian Mooney

Amazing Progress at Positive Money

Ben Dyson

EDITORIAL

The Census Cometh

(Apologies for the lateness of this edition ... all due to the tribulations involved in getting back on line after moving house!)

How to respond to the imminent census? Many correspondents, considering passive resistance, may be likened to novice skydivers, who, parachutes donned and doors open, still wonder whether they have what it takes to jump.

Passive resistance may be argued from a number of standpoints.

Firstly there is an excellent item from John Newell reminding us of the long and lamentable catalogue of losses and failings in data protection; the Ministry of Defence alone has lost perhaps 400 (yes, you read it correctly), laptops and memory sticks in 4 years. Data Protection is a farce. Any assurance by government or any other authority that your data is safe is not worth a Zimbabwean dollar!

Not included in this edition, for lack of space, is the Lockheed Martin argument, much used by peace campaigners. However the use of such a company, with its inevitably close affiliations to the intelligence communities, must raise serious questions.

So do any of us really believe the spin ... that the census is of vital necessity in 'planning services'? Well, any local education authority will be able to tell you exactly how many children are at school in its area, where they are and what their ages are. The Pensions Agency will give you almost exact similar data for the number of pensioners, and the DWP for the number and location of the unemployed. Since the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947, plans of every new building, or significant modification to any building will be held by the local planning authority. A sample tally of religious denominations would give a pretty accurate enumeration of their professing flocks. The list goes on. Why is it that we need to spend half a billion or more in an exercise that will tell us little more than we already know?

Perhaps the answer, as so often, lies with the EU, an argument supported by another meticulous piece of research by Anne Palmer. That path leads to an appeal for passive nonco-operation from Albert Burgess, and rounded off by a further Euro-warning from Marc Glendenning.

As regards census evasion a number of fairly basic and obvious ideas have been doing the rounds. Don't answer your door during the census peiod; switch off your doorbell; tell friends and family to phone or email before calling; make sure that the front of your home is so obscured with curtains, blinds etc. as to prevent anyone outside from seeing whether there is anyone at home, and so forth. If you are nabbed by an enumerator, then tell them you have just posted the form; go 'on holiday'; tell them you were staying at another address (with might be a complete fiction) and the form was filled in there; fill the form with complete fiction; are amongst some suggestions which have been on offer.

The alternative to evasion is direct confrontation. This gets back to an old theme of the Runnymede Project ... indeed its central purpose .... that most people are unlikely to take such risks unless they have the confidence of 'safety in numbers' and can bathe in the waters of mutual solidarity. If a few people break the 'law', then they have a problem, if many thousands break the 'law, then the law has a problem.

In other words organisation, organisation, organisation. Think how different things could have been if every community had a local lodge able to canvass and leaflet its local community with the real facts about the census. The powers-that-be would be facing many millions of refusals. The challenge to construct such a network remains. Excessive focus, in some quarters, on esoteric red herrings such as the so-called 'legal fiction', rather than mainstream issues such as census non co-operation, are not necessarily helpful.

Democracy as Trojan

The Engdahl article from Global Research that the US Congress-backed National Endowment for Democracy may be involved in the current imbroglio in the Arab World. That may be of great interest in itself, but is not the main purpose for reproducing it here. For the NED not only uses cellular networks to organise, but also has a great liking for the slogan 'enough' (Kmara in Georgia; Kefaya in the Arab world; was NED also behind the Zvakwana ...Shona for 'Enough is Enough' ... slogan used by anti Mugabwe activists in Zimbabwe?). NED also makes use of the methods of Gene Sharp who work The Politics of Nonviolent Action may be regarded as seminal.

Readers have doubtless noticed that this publication also advocates a cellular network, and uses the same slogan (I readily admit, filched from Zvakwana idea ... no claims are made for originality!).

It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Gene Sharp's work is encyclopaedic; cellular networks have been successful in many revolutions and resistance movements. Actually there are no other ways of achieving radical change (even if that change involves ... as this journal advocates ... a good measure of reverse engineering)..

We are used to seeing laudable objectives being used as Trojans. Naturally we all wish to be safe, protect our children, and enjoy good health, peace, harmony and prosperity. Equally we have seen... to take just one example of many ... how in the past three or four decades 'health and safety' has burgeoned from a set of pragmatic and reasonable rules, to become an all embracing gorgon feeding (and in turn being fed by) a form of hysterical mass hypochondria.

Thus the desirability of motherhood and apple pie becomes a pretext to firstly insert and then expand corporate governance. An implication of the Engdahl article is that the concept of democracy itself is becoming just such a Trojan. Or perhaps it is a sign of desperate times that Washington and its vaunted 'consensus' is taking such a risk with a project which may so easily run out of its control.

Frank Taylor

PREVIOUS CASES OF MISSING DATA

from John Newell

Blunders involving sensitive official information have hit the headlines. There has been a series of cases where confidential information has been lost or stolen. Several laptops containing sensitive data have gone missing and files marked Top Secret have been left on a commuter train. In one of the most high-profile cases, a private consulting firm lost a computer memory stick containing the details of tens of thousands of prisoners.

Here are other cases to emerge in the recent past;

MAY 2009: RAF PERSONNEL DATA

It emerged that data lost from RAF Innsworth in Gloucestershire the previous September included 500 highly sensitive files, containing details of individuals' extra-marital affairs, debts and drug use. An internal MoD memo passed to the BBC warned that the material "provides excellent material for Foreign Intelligence Services and blackmailers".

On the same day, a report from the Information Commissioner told the NHS to improve its data security, after the watchdog took action against 14 NHS organisations in the last six months.

JANUARY 2009: PRISONER MEDICAL RECORDS

A health worker in Lancashire lost a memory stick containing the medical details of more than 6,000 prisoners and ex-prisoners from HMP Preston. The data was encrypted, but the password had been written on a note which was attached to the stick when it was misplaced.

NOVEMBER 2008: GOVERNMENT COMPUTER PASSWORDS

A memory stick -holding passwords for a government computer system -was found in the car park of a pub in Staffordshire. The Gateway website gives access to services including tax returns and child benefits. The memory stick was lost by an employee of a subcontractor called Atos Origin.

OCTOBER 2008: MINISTRY OF DEFENCE DATA

A computer hard drive containing the personal details of about 100,000 of the Armed Forces was reported missing during an audit carried out by IT contractor EDS.

It is thought to contain more than 1.5m pieces of information, possibly unencrypted, including the details of 600,000 potential recruits, a small amount of information about bank details, passport numbers, addresses, dates of birth, driving licence details and telephone numbers.

The Ministry of Defence police said it was investigating the disappearance but it is not yet known whether or not it was stolen.

SEPTEMBER 2008: JUSTICE AND RAF EMPLOYEE DETAILS

The government confirmed that a portable hard drive holding details of up to 5,000 employees of the justice system was lost in July 2007.

The details of employees of the National Offender Management Service in England and Wales, including prison staff, were lost by a private firm, EDS.

Officials only realised the data was missing in July of this year. Justice Secretary Jack Straw launched an inquiry.

Also this month, the MoD admitted that tens of thousands of personnel files had been lost from RAF Innsworth in Gloucestershire.

Hard disks containing the data, which included names, addresses and some bank account details, were taken from a secure area.

AUGUST 2008: DATA ON CRIMINALS

Home Office contractor PA Consulting admitted losing a computer memory stick containing information on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales. It also held personal details of about 10,000 prolific offenders.

The Home Office suspended the transfer of all further data to the private firm pending the outcome of an investigation. An Information Commissioner's investigation later ruled that the Home Office had broken data protection laws over the incident and must sign a formal undertaking to improve its procedures in future.

JULY 2008: MEMORY STICKS AND LAPTOPS

The Ministry of Defence confirmed that 121 computer memory sticks and more than twice as many laptops than previously thought have been lost or stolen in the past four years. Armed Forces Minister Bob Ainsworth gave a written statement to parliament saying 121 USB memory devices had gone astray -five of which contained secret data. And in a parliamentary written answer, Defence Secretary Des Browne said 747 laptops had been stolen -400 more than originally reported. Of those, 32 have been recovered so far.

JUNE 2008: TERROR DOCUMENTS

A senior intelligence officer from the Cabinet Office was suspended after documents were left on the seat of commuter train from London Waterloo. A passenger later handed them to the BBC.

The seven-page file, classified as "UK Top Secret", contained a report entitled "Al-Qaeda Vulnerabilities" and an assessment of the state of Iraq's security forces.

Cabinet Minister Ed Miliband said there had been a "clear breach" of security rules, which forbid the removal of such documents from government premises. But Mr Miliband said national security did not seem to be "at risk". Two inquiries -one by the Cabinet Office, the other by the Metropolitan Police -have been launched.

APRIL 2008: MCDONALD'S LAPTOP

An Army captain's laptop was taken from under his chair as he ate in a McDonald's, near the Ministry of Defence's Whitehall headquarters.

The MoD said the data on the laptop was not sensitive, and was fully encrypted. This is the latest MoD laptop theft to be made public and it came after the government tightened the rules on employees taking computers out of work. Whitehall staff are now banned from taking unencrypted laptops or drives containing personal data outside secured office premises.

JANUARY 2008: MILITARY RECRUITS

A laptop computer belonging to a Royal Navy officer was stolen from car in Edgbaston, Birmingham. It contained the personal details of 600,000 people who had expressed an interest in, or applied to join, the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and the RAF. It contained data including passport numbers, National Insurance numbers and bank details.

Defence Secretary Des Browne later admitted the inquiry into the loss of the Royal Navy officer's laptop uncovered two similar thefts since 2005.

At the time, Dr Liam Fox, shadow defence secretary, said 68 MoD laptops had been stolen in 2007, 66 in 2006, 40 in 2005 and 173 in 2004.

DECEMBER 2007: DRIVING TEST CANDIDATES

The details of three million candidates for the UK driving theory test went missing in the US. Names, addresses and phone numbers -but no financial information -were among the details stored on a computer hard drive, which belonged to a contractor working for the Driving Standards Agency.

The information was sent electronically to contractor Pearson Driving Assessments in Iowa and the hard drive was then sent to another state before being brought back to Iowa, where it went missing. Ministers said the information had been formatted specifically to meet the security requirements of Pearson Driving Assessments and was not "readily usable or accessible" by third parties.

NOVEMBER 2007: CHILD BENEFIT RECORDS

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) lost two computer discs containing the entire child benefit records, including the personal details of 25 million people -covering 7.25 million families overall. The two discs contained the names, addresses, dates of birth and bank account details of people who received child benefit. They also included National Insurance numbers. They were sent via internal mail from HMRC in Washington, north-east England, to the National Audit Office in London on 18 October, by a junior official, and never arrived.

The Metropolitan Police were informed of the loss in November and extensive searches began. In December, a reward of £20,000 was offered for the return of the two discs, but they were never recovered.

THE 2011 CENSUS ... LEGAL AND EU
BACKGROUND

From Anne Palmer and Dave Barnby

The below forwarded thanks to Anne St George (don't forget the use that Germany put the 1930s censuses to - gettoisation, rounding up of 'undesirables' and gas chambers - read: IBM and the Holaucaust). And don't forget that most member countries that now make up the EU (and whose leaders now make decisions over us) were, within the living memory of many of us, totalitarian states persecuting and sometimes torturing its peoples for crimes of having an opinion.

This census is a real headache for all thinking peoples

Dave

CENSUS FORM 2011

We live and learn a little more about the EU each day. As it is coming up to Census time once more for the United Kingdom Government to recognise just how many people are living here and how they are living most of us we have never so far minded sharing the "facts of life" with the powers that be here in the UK. However this year, the 2011 Census is very different, for the information we give is going to be shared, guess who with? The European Union. This information is in the "Official Journal of the European Union" 13.8.2008 page L 218/14. No wonder there are far more intrusive questions to answer and now we know why. How dare our British Government accept this? I have no objection to filling the usual kind of form that is for the UK alone but I will not fill in such an intrusive form that is to be shared with an organisation the people of this Country have never had a say on, nor had the opportunity to reject or accept. Do we give all the details required on the form to strangers we happen to meet in our own home town? No? Then why should foreigners want to know?

Anne Palmer,

Official Journal of the European Union on population and Housing Censuses

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:218:00 14:0020:EN:PDF

or

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:218:SOM:en:HTML

Census questions, forms and definitions.

http://www.census.ac.uk/guides/Qf.aspx

Scotland Census Form

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files2/the-census/scotlands-census-2011 -specimenquestionnaire.pdf http://www.ons.gov.uk/census/2011-census/2011-census-project/legislati on/european-union--eu-legislation.html

European Union (EU) legislation On 20 February 2008 the European Parliament approved a

Council (Framework) Census Regulation covering the harmonization of outputs from member states’ censuses of population and housing. This took affect when it was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 9 July 2008. The regulation provides for the specification of outputs, the means of submission of these to Eurostat, and the requirement to provide metadata and quality reports, to be prescribed by subordinate Commission (Implementing) Regulations. These are currently being drafted with input from the EU Legislation Task Force of which the UK is a member.

The Council Regulation which prescribes the reference year for the next round of censuses as being 2011. Thereafter, reference years will be determined by subsequent Commission Regulations. The Regulation also requires Member States to make available the results of their census by end of March 2014.

The Framework Regulation is intended to be a permanent piece of legislation concerned with establishing common rules for the decennial provision of comprehensive population and housing data to be collected from traditional census taking or from alternative sources such as surveys and registers, or from combinations of such sources. Etc. http://www.census.ac.uk/guides/inter_census.aspx International census resources. Most, but not all, countries conduct regular censuses of their populations. For many countries this is a statutory requirement, sometimes at the supranational level (e.g. the European Union). In 1995 the United Nations even passed a resolution calling on all its member countries to compile census data by 2004. However, a census is only possible with the general consent of the population and in some countries this is no longer present. For example, Germany has not taken a full census since the census planned for 1983 had to be postponed until 1987 because of public concern over the proposed use of census returns to update local population registers. The Netherlands have not had a census since 1971, following a high level of refusal in 1971, and poor test returns in 1979. Both these and a number of other countries (including Denmark) have turned to alternative data sources, particularly population and housing registers and sample surveys, as the source of population statistics.

Census.ac.uk does not provide access to these international resources and cannot vouch for the quality or appropriateness of those listed below, except to say that it is believed these are some of the most significant, especially for modern census data. Etc.

Cabinet Office 25 Oct 2010
London Regional Committee Report (Government Response)

The Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General (Mr Francis Maude): The report by the House of Commons London Regional Committee on their only inquiry into London's population and the 2011 census was published on 31 March 2010 (HC 349). This Government did not re-establish the Regional Committees. They recognise the importance of providing a response to Parliament on the issues raised by the Committee. The majority of the recommendations in the report were for the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Two of the Committee's recommendations were for Government and this written ministerial statement provides the Government's response. The other recommendations were for ONS and I have placed today a copy of its response in the Library of the House.

This Government have serious concerns about the 2011 census introduced by the previous Parliament. Having given the issue serious consideration, and the costs already incurred, the 2011 census is the only way that unique information can be provided to meet essential UK and EU requirements in the given timeframe at no extra cost than that budgeted. It is important that the 2011 census goes ahead and this Government will continue to promote the importance of the public engaging with the 2011 census.

Given the highly mobile nature of the population, the UK Statistics Authority recognises the increasing difficulties and costs in carrying out a census. The authority has therefore instructed ONS to urgently work on developing alternatives, with the intention that the 2011 census is the last of its kind.

Recommendation 21 of the Committee's report was dealt with by the previous Government, with my predecessor writing to the Chair of the Committee shortly before the report was published.

Recommendation 14 of the report was on the need for the census address register being developed by the ONS for the 2011 census to be maintained after the census. The previous Government failed to deliver a definitive address register, despite the demands for such a register and the associated costs of inefficiency in maintaining a number of similar registers. This Government are working with the parties concerned and will look to deliver a definitive register. Considerable progress has already been achieved. The work ONS has done will form part of the solution.

International perspective and EU Regulations

1.22 The need for information is shared by the European Union (EU). The European Commission needs to be in possession of sufficiently reliable and comparable data on population and housing in order to fulfil the tasks assigned to it, notably by Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty establishing the European Community10. To this end a Council and European Parliament Regulation11 requiring Member States to provide the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat) with censusderived statistical information, or equivalent data, relating to the reference year 2011 came into force in July 2008. Aggregated statistics, agreed by the National Statistical Institutes of Member States, and to be prescribed by a subsequent Commission Regulation, will be supplied to Eurostat for use by the European Commission in support of the European Parliament. Arrangements will be put in place to ensure that statistical disclosure controls are in place to protect the confidentiality of any statistical data to be made accessible to Eurostat under this obligation (see also Chapter 6).

The United Kingdom is playing a full part in discussions to ensure harmonization of the statistics produced by the different EU Member States. The concepts and definitions to be adopted by the EU will adhere to the Conference of European Statisticians’ Recommendations for the 2010 Censuses of Population and Housing12, prepared by a joint Eurostat and UN Economic Commission for Europe Working Group, to which the UK made a significant contribution.

Data access and data sharing

6.12 The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) gives discretionary powers to the UK Statistics Authority (Statistics Board) to allow wider access to census information provided that any such disclosure:

is permitted under other legislation is required to fulfil a European Community obligation

is necessary for the purposes of enabling or assisting the Board to exercise any of its functions is to persons providing services to the Board, if the Board considers it necessary or appropriate to do so for the purposes of the provision of those services has already lawfully been made available to the public is made in pursuance or an order of any court or for the purposes of a criminal investigation or proceedings is made in the interest of national security is made with the consent of the person to whom it relates, or is made to an

approved researcher.

TO ALL TRUE ENGLISH MEN AND WOMEN

From Albert Burgess

We are shortly to be asked to fill in a census form, the information coming out about the intrusive questions this form requires answers too are entirely unacceptable to any right thinking subjects of Her Majesty’s.

We now have information that this census originates in the European Union. Under English Constitutional Law we are not required to complete this census for reasons I will supply.

In 1351 King Edward I brought in his Act of Praemunire. King Edwards’s subjects were being drawn out of the realm to be tried in foreign courts, Laws were being imposed in England by foreign powers, and Bishops were being ordered by Rome to excommunicate his subjects.

King Edward I considered these things to be an affront to his honour as King of England. The Acts of Praemunire 1351 and 1392 make these things High Treason against the King's Honour, Bishops and others who committed a Praemunire risked property, limbs and life.

In 1559 Queen Elizabeth I passed the Act of Supremacy, This Act made this great Queen the supreme authority for the Church in England and all laws. This Act contains an oath still in use today it is sworn by every privy councillor

The oath is as follows.

I A.B. Do utterly testify and declare in my conscience, that the Queens Highness is the only supreme governor of this realm and of all her Highness’ dominions and countries as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal, and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual within this realm; and therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign jurisdictions, powers, superiorities, and authority’s, and do promise that henceforth I shall bear faith and true allegiance to the Queens Highness, her heirs and lawful successors, and to my power shall assist and defend all jurisdictions, pre-eminanences, privileges and authority’s granted or belonging to the Queens Highness, her heirs and successors or united or annexed to the imperial Crown of this realm: so help me God and by the contents of this book, And that it may be also enacted, That if any such archbishop, bishop, or other ecclesiastical officer or minister or any of the said temporal judges, justicularies or other lay officer or minister shall peremptorily or obstinately refuse to take or receive the said oath, then he so refusing shall forfeit and lose only during his life all and every ecclesiastical and spiritual promotion, benefice and office, and every temporal and lay promotion and office, which he hath solely at the time of such refusal made; and that the whole title, interest and incumbency in every promotion, benefice and other office as against such person so refusing during his life shall clearly cease and be void as though the party so refusing were dead.

This is taken from Statutes and Constitutional Documents 1558-1625 published by Prothero 1913. The Bill of Rights 1689 has an abbreviated form of this same oath.

The Acts of Praemunire 1351/92, Supremacy 1559, and the Bill of Rights 1689 are major English Constitutional laws which we break at out peril.

King Edward I, King Richard II, AND Queen Elizabeth I, and King William III felt the actions which amount to a Praemunire were affronts to their honour as Kings and Queens of England. Is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II not also being subjected to an affront to her honour as Queen of England?

Is her Crown less important than these earlier Kings and Queens? Her Majesty’s Kingdom has been invaded by a foreign power the European Union which with the connivance of members of our own parliament aiding and abetting this invasion and occupation of the United Kingdom. Foul and Base Traitors all.

I call upon all true Englishmen and Women to refuse to complete this census as it is an affront to Her Majesty’s honour as the true Queen of England. I call upon all true English men and women to defend Her Majesty’s Honour as the only supreme governor of England.

NEW EU MASS SURVEILLANCE
PROJECT REVEALED

Marc Glendening

Statewatch, the civil liberties body that monitors the EU, has gained access to Council of Ministers Conclusions that reveal that Brussels now wants law enforcement agencies in its member countries to build lists of political activists as part of a 'systematic data collection'.

Those responsible in the member countries for acquiring the information on 'agents of radicalisation' have been sent by the EU a 'data compilation instrument' that includes a list of 70 questions they are requested to answer.

This involves discovering who the targeted activists socialise with, family members, psychological traits, religious affiliation, activities, economic status, and, very revealingly, 'oral comments' - presumably ascertained through phone taps - they have made on political issues (Guardian, June 8, 2010).

Vague definition

What actually constitutes being considered to be an 'agent of radicalisation' is not defined in any degree of detail and leaves open the door to wide categories of people finding themselves of potential interest to EU agencies.

The EU documents refer to 'extreme right/left, Islamist, nationalist, anti-globalisation' groups as some of those qualifying for surveillance, but the Democracy Movement will now use Freedom of Information requests within the UK to try and discover what precise criteria those in the UK entrusted with building this database will employ.

Europol, the EU's fledgling FBI equivalent, will pull together the information gathered at the member state level.

Broader authoritarian agenda

This move by the EU to document and keep under surveillance political activists follows on from the establishment of Project Indect.

This European Commission funded and inititated programme is designed to develop a system of automated surveillance monitors that will identify 'abnormal behaviour'.

In addition to CCTV footage, these sensors will comb through web sites, internet discussion forums, file servers and individual computers.

In Britain, York University and the Police Service of Northern Ireland are spearheading the development of this project with £10million of Brussels funding.

Again, there is a failure, or refusal, to actually spell out what constitutes 'abnormal behaviour' and this means that what in a traditional liberal democracy might be considered to be legitimate activity that should be free of state surveillance will, in the context of the EU, be considered appropriate for state intervention.

Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights group Liberty, has described Project Indect as 'positively chilling'.

EU critics to be targets?

It is perhaps worth recalling in this context that, famously, the Vienna-based EU Monitoring Centre for Racism and Xenophobia (since morphed into the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights) once defined opposition to the European single currency as "monetary xenophobia"!

So it is therefore far from utterly inconceivable that those groups and persons who are opposed to European political union could find themselves defined by EU agencies as being nationalist 'agents of radicalism' and participants in 'abnormal behaviour', worthy of having their phones and computers tapped, among other activities.

No democracy

In addition to the dangerously illiberal content of this new EU drive to document and keep tabs on political activists, what is disturbing is the fact that this policy is being executed without any parliamentary or public consultation whatsoever.

Had the commendable Statewatch not somehow managed to see and expose the relevant documents, nobody in this or anyother member country would even be aware this was even taking place.
Welcome to the EU's new, exciting, post-Lisbon, post-democracy.

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Well, actually you don't have very much of a choice: if you fill in the census with your data, Lockheed Martin will have direct access to it.