Spying on us doesn't protect democracy. It undermines it

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Thursday, 29 October 2009 (on October 29, 2009)

By branding protesters and mainstream Muslim activists as extremists, the police are effectively criminalising dissentThere's nothing new about British governments spying on their own citizens. From..

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Spying on us doesn't protect democracy. It undermines it

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