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Originally Posted by andyl
Er, aren't Labour's roots in democratic Socialism, not Communism?
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Technically different, but they are so closely related, most of the definining charactistics overlap.. certainly for this case.
From wikipedia: "As a political movement, communism is a more radical branch of the broader socialist movement. "
Rather than get caught up in the hysteria of it all, I would be interested to know what the government doesn't want us to know, first. I am sure there are plenty of things we shouldn't be told for our own protection, but wouldn't these be covered under the Official Secrets Act anyway?
I guess this is to help stop another 'David Kelly' happening, where a report comes out that is so dangerous, someone will commit suicide over it, or cause some sort of deaths or mayhem through social unrest. The only other thing is, if someone says something, and he isn't part of the government, then can that be covered under the Official Secrets Act? Can the government just designate whatever they want to the OSA? I don't think so which is probably why they wanted to come up with this. Still, i'd like to try and find out more about it before automatically labelling the government as some oppressive censoring, BB styled regime for implementing this, or wether it works out to be common sense.