Aug 242013
I advise my good friends in the United Kingdom and perhaps in Australia to pause and think before clicking on the following link:
http://publicintelligence.net/aqap-inspire-issue-11/
The link is to a blog site that is dedicated to discussions about the public’s right to access information. Specifically, to a blog entry that discusses the latest issue of Al Qaeda’s “open source terrorism” magazine, INSPIRE. They also provide an archive of present and past issues of INSPIRE.
And herein lies the problem. Apparently in the UK, and perhaps also in Australia, mere possession of INSPIRE is a crime, regardless of the reason.
Having grown up on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, I find this deeply troubling.