Having once used the 192.com service to try and locate somebody, I seem to be forever on their emailing list.
One morning this week I got the following email from them;
ORDER THE BIG BREACH NOW FROM 192.COM
192.com has over 50% of the total printed copies of The Big Breach and will be flying the books into the UK on Tuesday. It will be the first company in the UK, online or otherwise, to stock the controversial MI6 book which will be available to it's 650,000 registered users as well as the public at large.
The inner workings of Britain's intelligence services are revealed in the book. The Foreign Office has warned that publishing the information could put National Security at risk.
The Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that the Sunday Times could serialise the book once it was in the public domain. The book's official launch is on Tuesday in Moscow after which it will be widely available across Russia, Europe and the US.
192.com champion the cause for Freedom of Information, and firmly believe that details on National Security widely accessible in other countries should be available to UK citizens.
It's An Outrage!!
It's called National Security for a fecking reason!! I don't believe anyone, anywhere should be able to read this sort of thing. Just because a disgruntled ex-low level MI6 operative wants to make a quick, easy pile of money, does not mean he should be allowed to put lives at risk.
If Government documents were used in a poker game, The Freedom Of Information would not beat The Official Secrets Act. So why should it be this way when money is involved?
Every police or military or security service action now seems to be open to the lottery of public scrutiny. Do you think we'd have won WWII if Churchill had to answer to the media every time he made a decision? Or do you think we'd all be speaking German now?
As the general public, we do not have the appropriate moral or intellectual capacity to pass judgement on how these things are carried out. Neither do we have the bigger picture, or the balls.
The man who wrote this should be paid a 3am visit by his ex-colleagues.
It's Another Outrage!!
192.com claim to be championing the cause of the public, and as such you'd think they themsleves would be beyond reproach.
Funny then that their own operating practices have been called severely into question by the Office Of Fair Trading.
They do not make it clear that they have no affiliation to BT's Directory Enquiries service (who are 192 on the phone).
They contact businesses and 'advise' them that their business name has been deleted from the 192 CD-ROM, and ask for a payment to ensure it goes back on. Except that they've never actually produced one copy of this CD so far.
Perhaps they're also in line for a 3am visit...?
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