Mugabe and Bush - Birds of a Feather?

Actually they're not quite the same. Mugabe's government passed a law allowing it to spy on his country's citizens.

Zimbabwe's new Interception of Communications Act provides for the setting up of an interception centre to listen into telephone conversations, open mail and intercept emails and faxes. The law also compels internet service providers to install equipment to facilitate interception "at all times or when so required" and ensure that its equipment allows full-time monitoring of communications.

Naturally this is an incredibly fascist measure directed by an anti-democratic, out of control government against its own people. So is the law just passed by Zimbabwe.

According to AFP: The government in Harare defended the new law saying it was necessary to protect the country from international terrorism and espionage. Does that sound familiar or is it just me?