Sun fears on government database
The harshest critics of Rupert Murdoch and The Sun would accept that you always know where you stand with them.
When I read one of their "Sun Says" editorials I usually find myself strongly agreeing, occasionally violently disagreeing, never anything in between.
Most of the occasions when I have recently disagreed have been in connection with national security, for example on 42 days detention without charge, where it has sometimes seemed that they automatically support any proposal for more government and police powers without stopping to consider, not just any civil liberty implications, but whether the proposal would actually work.
But that makes it all the more telling that in today's "Sun Says" editorial, which you can read here, the paper's leader writers express some strong and valid concerns about the proposed new government database. Comments they make include:
Loss of trust
"THE more information about us the Government collects, the greater the chance of it being lost. ...
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith insists there are sound anti-terror reasons for keeping tabs on us all. She promises councils won’t use the database to snoop on people dropping apple cores.
But she also needs to convince us Labour can be trusted with so much sensitive info.
The fear is that it will all end up in a skip.
If the most pro-security newspaper in Fleet Street can see the risks with what the government are proposing, isn't it time for the Home Secretary and Sub-Prime Minister to think again ?
When I read one of their "Sun Says" editorials I usually find myself strongly agreeing, occasionally violently disagreeing, never anything in between.
Most of the occasions when I have recently disagreed have been in connection with national security, for example on 42 days detention without charge, where it has sometimes seemed that they automatically support any proposal for more government and police powers without stopping to consider, not just any civil liberty implications, but whether the proposal would actually work.
But that makes it all the more telling that in today's "Sun Says" editorial, which you can read here, the paper's leader writers express some strong and valid concerns about the proposed new government database. Comments they make include:
Loss of trust
"THE more information about us the Government collects, the greater the chance of it being lost. ...
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith insists there are sound anti-terror reasons for keeping tabs on us all. She promises councils won’t use the database to snoop on people dropping apple cores.
But she also needs to convince us Labour can be trusted with so much sensitive info.
The fear is that it will all end up in a skip.
If the most pro-security newspaper in Fleet Street can see the risks with what the government are proposing, isn't it time for the Home Secretary and Sub-Prime Minister to think again ?
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