Re: SPL -- Suspicious Persons List
At 09:04 PM 9/15/96 -0400, Phill <hallam@ai.mit.edu> wrote:
Work for the competition, or start your own company.
Easy enough for you or me who can charge the minimum wage rate for an hour for a period more like a minute.
In this part of California, most yard work is done by small companies run by guys named Jose or Pablo, who can charge maybe 2-3x minimum at most before the competition undercuts them. And they have to worry about blacklists also - "business licenses" and "immigration papers".
... Being opposed to government slavery isn't enough. Coorporate slavery is just as bad. Unless people are enfranchised ecconmically as well as politically the political liberties don't matter much.
It's not corporate slavery when you don't have to work for them.
I am on an SPL that is run by an organisation called the "Ecconomic League". It is an organisation run by the UK Conservative party which keeps lists of "unsafe" employees. Of course the list is
(Just because I don't believe in the concept of "corporate slavery" doesn't mean I don't think corporations can be offensive. This sucks...) Out of curiousity, I thought the UK had Data Privacy Laws or some sort of Database Cops - does that not apply to applications like this? # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> # You can get PGP software outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto
(Just because I don't believe in the concept of "corporate slavery" doesn't mean I don't think corporations can be offensive. This sucks...) Out of curiousity, I thought the UK had Data Privacy Laws or some sort of Database Cops - does that not apply to applications like this?
The Tories put an exclusion into the act deliberately to cover the Ecconomic League. Only record which are kept on computer are covered. The Ecconomic League deliberately keeps all its records on paper to avoid the act. Its simply an example of privatized abuse. The information is available to the government for party political work but they cannot be questioned about its activities because they "arn't involved" (sarcastic laughter). This is the same government which used MI5 to monitor the activities of the peace movement and which used 5000 crack troops to evict 50 elderly women from land they wanted to turn into a missile base. Whether you agree or disagree with the policies the methods sound very much like those of Hoover at the FBI with a strong dose of Nixon thrown in. Phill
On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Bill Stewart wrote:
I am on an SPL that is run by an organisation called the "Ecconomic League". It is an organisation run by the UK Conservative party which keeps lists of "unsafe" employees. Of course the list is (Just because I don't believe in the concept of "corporate slavery" doesn't mean I don't think corporations can be offensive. This sucks...) Out of curiousity, I thought the UK had Data Privacy Laws or some sort of Database Cops - does that not apply to applications like this?
The Econmic league is not run by the UK Conservative party directly, in the same way that the Willie Horton ads were not run by the Bush campaign.. They escape the Data Protection Act by virtue of keeping all this information in filing cabinets (at least, they claim to.) Simon --- Cause maybe (maybe) | In my mind I'm going to Carolina you're gonna be the one that saves me | - back in Chapel Hill May 16th. And after all | Email address remains unchanged You're my firewall - | ........First in Usenet.........
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