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Julian Friedmann Books (£12).
A historian knows that the can very manufacture cases exactly to Bove no are in are or hai It IS. dround particular cases motives and methods of the governors become disclosed.
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public, there is a strong case for new affirmative laws...
The difficulty is, first, that when any affirmative measure, such Information Act, drafted, the establishment of 'public ser*1978 vants' is alerted, and immense pains will be taken to offer (to journalists, etc.) while at the salle umic actually strengEner hard-core are of provisions, which offered with a new legitimacy... If we are alert enough, such and exposed, second difficulty arises... That is, Information Act that there shall be public access Freedom of IS being the entire invisible innocuous concessions security then paign Information should be under may be spotted about it.
but then the Freedom of better commands WHat E was to this and that category of document, then the state within the state will simply seal off this information in new ways...
our "spies'.
If a We have to renew the nerve clerk ot outrage and we have to aler material, the public conscience. For ways of doing this we may turn to our history for many precedents.
We should certainly camFreedom of *blown' Act But no illusions Whenever the governors of Britain have assumed to know than the British people their own case. their 'best interests to believe, to read and "blown', then to know, one proper response has been to defy the law...
We must therefore educate the public conscience to the point where, on every side, their spies are surrounded by copy-typist or a tiling upon university civil servant knows that illegitimate 1s taking place, then this information must be What is legitimate and what is illegitimate will always be a difficult question; but | am saying that increasingly British people must become jurors in If the secrets of power are fellow-citizens REVIEW OF SECURITY STALE AP.THOMPSO compiled by STATE RESEARCH will be exposed to danger. The British security services will THUEC vengefully than their American counterparts to any attempt to disclose their operations Home Secretaries will loyally lisp through the briefs that their masters give them. Judges will hurry to the side of the state. A section of the press will slaver after 'exemplary" sentences.
This means that, it support the right to public information, we must be very serious indeed about coming to the defence of those who may expose themselves in this cause VIDELA