Comments on: MI5 files released at National Archives http://heatherbrooke.org/2005/mi5-files-released-at-national-archives/ Heather Brooke is an award-winning writer, journalist and activist Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:44:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: noel http://heatherbrooke.org/2005/mi5-files-released-at-national-archives/comment-page-1/#comment-554 noel Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:18:36 +0000 http://www.yrtk.org/2005/mi5-files-released-at-national-archives/#comment-554 hi how can I see my MI5 file( 30yrs even ie 1978) noel hi
how can I see my MI5 file( 30yrs even ie 1978)
noel

]]> By: This Planet http://heatherbrooke.org/2005/mi5-files-released-at-national-archives/comment-page-1/#comment-553 This Planet Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:00:24 +0000 http://www.yrtk.org/2005/mi5-files-released-at-national-archives/#comment-553 In Spycatcher, (1987), the author recalls that in 1955 MI5 kept 2 MILLION Personal Files (PFs) in manilla folders, which only rose significantly in the late sixties early/seventies due to student radicalism. I imagine it is far larger now thanks to computer databases and the public access internet. When you consider the UK population is 60 million, greater than 1 in every 30 people could have a MI5 personal file. That is not a free country. Just about anybody who can count to ten on his or her fingers could be being classified as a threat to the state according to those numbers. MI5 turns people against the state by having so many records on innocent members of the public with morals. In Spycatcher, (1987), the author recalls that in 1955 MI5 kept 2 MILLION Personal Files (PFs) in manilla folders, which only rose significantly in the late sixties early/seventies due to student radicalism. I imagine it is far larger now thanks to computer databases and the public access internet.

When you consider the UK population is 60 million, greater than 1 in every 30 people could have a MI5 personal file. That is not a free country. Just about anybody who can count to ten on his or her fingers could be being classified as a threat to the state according to those numbers.

MI5 turns people against the state by having so many records on innocent members of the public with morals.

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