Ġiet f’idejja Paġna ‘minn gazzetta li kont erfajt… The Times tas-16 ta’ Ottubru 1984. Dak inhar Democrat kien kiteb dan l-artiklu bl-isem ta’ Why I am against communism” li qed inwassal għall-kummenti tagħhkom u biex tixtarruh u taraw jekk erġajnix mexjin (jekk mhux diġa bdejna) għal dawn is-sitwazzjonijiet. Sintendi l-artiklu qiegħed bl-Ingliż.

I came across a book called “Why I am against Communism ” by Dr Fred. C. Schwarz. What struck me most and of particular interestis one paragraph about monopoly which I here quote:
“The communist Party rules by establishing and maintaining a total monopoly over every aspect of life. This monopoly is political, judicial, economic, educational and cultural. The Communist Party formulates all the laws and administers them after they have been passed.
It controls the army and the police force. It designs the economic plan of the nation and controls manufacturing distribution, banking and trade so that it monopolizes employment. It selects and trains all teachers, prepares the curriculum for all schools and decides which schools students shall attend. It organizes and controls the lavour unions, he news media, artictic and sporting activity. Even religion is subject to the direction of a commissar.
“The Communists are well aware of the power over the individual worker that monopoly brings. They have attacked capitalism viciously because it allegedly generates monopolistic firms which exercise excessive control over their workers. However, there is no monopoly in a capitalist societ remotely comparable to the monopoly the Communist Party exercises in a ‘Socialist society.” ” Because of its monopoly , the communist Party exercises complete power over the life of every citizen. This power is literally that of life and death. The citizen can be arrested and imprisoned with or withourt trial; he can be dismissed from his job and made unemployable so that he starves; he can be forbidden to live where he chooses within the country and travel throughout the country as he wishes; he cannot leave the country without permission which is rarely given; he is restricted in what he reads, hears and says so that his mind is deformed through lack of information and his personality through suppressed convictions.
“Even thought it may not always exercise these powers fully the Communist monopoly dictatorship has them, and it can implement them when he chooses. A simple definition of the Communist dictatorship is “a society in which the Communist Party can and it will, render any individual unemployed and thereby causes that individual to starve.” It is obvious that the citizen in such a society possesses no basic rights. The communist Party owns his body and soul and can dispose of him as at will.
“The only freedom he has is to obey and submit. His only deliverance is in flight.”
The Communist main enemy is the Church, hence the Roman Catholic religion.”

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‘wiretapping is legally difficult for the government: it must obtain a hard-to-get intercept order or “super-warrant” from a court, subject to strict oversight and variety of strong privacy protections. However, wiretapping is typically very technically easy for the government.’

That’s in the USA.

Now that’s something for the newspapers to take up.

How about getting our representatives to demand that only a hard-to-get intercept order or ‘super-warrant’ will do and not just an easily obtainable ‘normal’ warrant.

That’s an idea for Simon Busuttil to work on.

Exactly, it seems that Vodafone is the only provider which has been open about the situation it has been placed in.

Lest we forget the 3773 requests made, are not equivalent to 3773 numbers but account to far many more numbers. These are requests not telephone numbers monitored. So in truth the number of phones monitored by just one supplier that is Vodafone are actually much more. Add tothese melita, and go and the phones monitored must be much higher. The interesting matter is whether red touch phones are monitored or not. Furthermore it would be interesting to know the duration of monitoring as well as the total statistics regarding mobile telephony and what percentage of these are adults versus children

gvern li jigdeb
gvern li jahbi
gvern li jabbuza mit-telefonati li tghamel
gvern li jabbuza mill-protezzjoni tad-data tieghek.