A Sunday feature – each week a random section scanned from a copy of The Standard, September 15th, 1938. Find out more here.
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I had just been reading Frank La Rue’s Report before I read the post above.
The intimidation and fear generated by mass surveillance is so dangerous and the GCSB bill must not be allowed to pass. David Shearer needs to read this 1938 cutting..
‘Communications surveillance should be regarded as a highly intrusive act that potentially interferes with the rights to freedom of expression and privacy and threatens the foundations of a democratic society.’
Frank La Rue, UN’s Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion
What an opportune piece of news history. Thanks for this important piece.
Also listen in to Down the List this morning – mixup from a caller’s query between managing beneficiaries and controlling beneficiaries, some mention of 1080 seemed a bit excessive for the benes but worth considering.
“Sacrifice, sacrifice for the future glory of the fatherland”
Hmmm, I seem to remember similar coming from Roger Douglas and Labour in the 1980s.
Good capitalist advertising in The Standard 1.0
Labour has never been anti-capitalist.