The EU is more dangerous to individual and state liberty than the USSR of old.
Like I’ve been saying all along, the statists who create these problems use them in order to push more of their laws on us and rob from us more of our individual liberty.
NOTE: It’s tyranny with a smile that’s the most destructive and more difficult to beat, it’s much more easy to convince people that their lives and livelihood are in danger when the enemy is shoving a loaded muzzle in their direction.
The European Union’s Response To Terrorism Is A Massive Privacy Power Grab
Brussels is becoming less democratic and more monolithic by the week. At a time when 76 per cent of EU citizens believe corruption is widespread across the European Union, why is Britain giving away our personal and financial data?
We live in a highly volatile world, one in which we must carefully guard our freedom and our security. However, the EU makes every effort to piggyback onto every crisis, slowly endangering both.
As Get Britain Out reported back in July, the EU was set to expand its surveillance powers in the name of security. This was in reaction to the threat of Islamist terrorism, and the so-called ‘Passengers Name Record’ (PNR) has been rushed forward.
The PNR will be a large EU database monitoring all EU citizens travelling by air in the European Union. The data collected will be on a mass scale beyond the current system Britain has in place.
The last thing British families want to worry about while packing for trips abroad is the misuse of their personal information. In the age of the information revolution and government profiling, how long is it until a leak or hacking scandal puts such sensitive information at risk? The European Aviation Body has already said hackers could infiltrate critical systems relating to aviation infrastucrture.
It’s no coincidence the decision has been made after the recent atrocities in Paris. Using the current climate of near panic as an opportunity, the EU has found another way to expand its powers over us. The EU’s Civil Liberties Committee originally rejected the proposals in 2013, but the the same bill recently passed by 38 votes to 19.
More here. H/T: Fjordman
