We've bugged ALL the phones at Scotland Yard

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Almost three years on -- but I'm sure you're still on the edge of your seat waiting for replies here.

Actually, I just caught this film for the first time last night. Like others have commented here, it was surprisingly good for a flick I'd never heard of and one that went straight to video...

To your point, that line jumped out at me as well. But, for me, it was because it reminded me of how low popular opinion of the US had fallen in the UK, during the 2004-2007 time period. To look at the film and TV produced there from that time, the US had apparently developed a real dark, all-powerful empire image with many of our Brit cousins...

If you want some real-world grounding for that line of dialogue, however, then you need look no further than "ECHELON." (Google that for your daily conspiracy theory dose!)

After peeling away the more far fetched bits, it seems obvious that there's still more than enough of ECHELON to make it quite likely that, yes, ALL comm lines had been bugged. Not only because the tech exists, but also because one of the original reasons for ECHELON -- way back in the early Cold War years -- was to provide our governments with convenient work-arounds for domestic privacy laws and civil rights. It's a simple formula: the US is allowed to bug/surveil certain people in the UK and the UK does likewise in the US and that info is shared "informally." Likewise with Canada, Australia and New Zealand... (LOL: English speaking peoples haven't spent the past few centuries dominating the world to just give that up without a fight...)




Quid novi? Vidistine nuper imagines moventes bonas?

yeah i say that is some serious bugging. funny huh


drugs...changed...everything..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8MGBn3KawM&feature=related