Are you being bugged? right now?.. Probably not, but as more and more shock and scandal comes out of the woodwork it's genuinely suprising that people are shocked that this form of monitoring goes on.
News which begain with the bugging of the meeting between Sadiq Khan, the Labour MP for Tooting, and his friend and constituent, Babar Ahmad, at Woodhill prison, Buckinghamshire, highlighted the shadowy area of covert intelligence gathering in jails
It is revealed now that prisoners are routinely bugged and today, even Her Majesty isn't safe. The nation's dearest is the latest to hit headlines as her offices were routinely checked for bugs in the 1990s.
Dominic Lawson of the Independent has stated should we still be surprised that this his happeneing?
"Just for example, does anyone really believe that Gerry Adams or Martin McGuinness were suddenly made exempt from bugging during the period in which they were Members of the House of Commons? It would be inconceivable – and yet that is what MPs seem to want to believe, in their strange parallel universe. "
Strong words ring true. This kind of monitoring is almost imperative in a society which has to be monitored. If we lived in a world where the only policing needed was a simple; "now, make sure you be nice and don't commit any crimes and/or terrorism, please", maybe it would not be needed. Privacy is something from time to time that has to be sacrificed for public safety, if you have nothing to hide, should it really be such a big deal?
The society we live in is hardly as Orwelian as many pessimists will have you believe, it's incredibly free. Arguably, the idea of a 'Big Brother' state can exist in forms such as the smoking ban etc and can in places go to far, I don't feel though that in situations where public safety is an issue it should be a problem.
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