Ah yes, 'honest intentions'! History is littered with good intentions
leading to bad outcomes. Never underestimate the devastating effects
of combining legislative loopholes, good-intentioned implementors, and
power-hungry leaders. Historically one of the best aids to genocide
has been the existence of the otherwise seemingly benign legal
requirement that each citizen's ethnicity is well-documented. As for
'something to hide', surely we are all old enough to remember Kenneth
Starr and his US$40m inquiry. The lesson of that whole episode must
surely be that if one puts enough resources into prying into another's
affairs, soon enough the target will have something worth hiding!
Legitimately I might add.
For the record I am not saying that the current government is not
well-intentioned in phrasing this Bill as-is. I am concerned that we
should not trust future governments to share those good intentions.
P.
Ps. Or, to put it another way, I'd like to conduct a survey on how
many emails you send per day, so please hand over your computer +
passwords so I can complete my effort. After that we review your
telephonic communications, the DVDs at your house, etc.
On Oct 29, 2008, at 12:41, Samuel Gitta wrote:
I think govts everywhere need mechanisms to obtain information, and
unless one has something to 'hide', I believe the drafters had honest
intentions...
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:03 AM, P. A. Bagyenda
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.parliament.go.ug/billtrack/bills/text/2008-008.pdf
You may want to get some views in on the matter. Edward Baliddawa,
who is
known to many of us, is understood to be the chairman of the
committee that
will discuss this Bill. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You will no doubt note Section 21, which taken together with Sec.
19 and
Schedule 2 offers more than a little opportunity for legalised
abuse. Yes,
no African government needs a law like this to abuse the rights of
citizens,
but I'm sure there are lessons in history that would counsel
against letting
this pass as it is...
P.
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