Phorm -> petition -> Brown -> ICO

[Peter Fairbrother]

Peter Tomlinson wrote:
> "Downing Street has palmed off responsibility for enforcing the law 
> around its web monitoring and profiling technology to the Information 
> Commissioner."
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/19/phorm_petition_response/

The petition was very badly worded, to the extent that I was in two 
minds about signing it.

Reading between the lines, the response is just the same-old, same-old - 
"we can break the law a little bit if we want to, we don't have to 
bother about the details".


Which has gotten MPs into a bit of bother with their expenses recently. 
Not that I think most MPs considered, even in their deepest moments, 
that they were doing anything wrong - but they were.



"we can break the law if we want to, we don't have to bother"

I have never been an MP filling out an expenses form, and I've never 
seen an MP's expenses form, so I don't really have a clue.

"We make the law, so we can break it" ... ?              no



I think a solution has to go back to the beginning [2] of "spin" ... or 
"lies"  ...

  - and that's exactly and only sending Blair [8] to jail for the lies 
about WMD involved in the decision to invade Iraq.


'Cos that's not when it all started. It had as always been going on 
before, of course, but it wasn't important before.

A PM should be able to recognise that difference.



Dismiss a Speaker? Pfui. Imprison an ex-PM, and we are talking about 
_real_ power and responsibility.



ps we arrest Bush2, if available.



-- Peter Fairbrother

[2] insofar as these things ever have a beginning, it's probably in the 
change in the rate of dishonesty of MP's - which parallels closely, with 
a little delay, the rate of supermarket pricing dishonesty; though up 
till now it appears the MPs have taken more advantage of the 
"acceptable-dishonesty" syndrome than the supermarkets)


[8] and the relevant civil servants, including most especially anyone 
involved, directly or otherwise, in the (maybe) murder of Dr. Kelly.