BA to fingerprint domestic passengers

[PeteM]

Tom Thomson wrote  on 5-03-08 18:13:
> If any person exhibits trust in our government and the bureaucracies
> that it claims to control that decreases my estimate of that person's
> intelligence - and most people I know think the same way as I do.  The
> people who incompetently administer and pretend to secure our
> infrastructure are definitely "them", and I would be ashamed to have
> those disgusting clowns classified along with me as "us".
> 
> Yes, the trouble is wide and deep - and the trouble is that the white
> hats inside the "security" tent are NOT worthy of our trust, they are
> not capable of avoiding the senseless killing of innocents in their
> pursuit of power, they are not above lying disgracefully about the
> circumstances in which they killed, and the only things that matter to
> them are spin and PR, certainly not sensible security arrangements.
> 

Absolutely agreed, though of course we'll have to be prepared for the 
usual idiotic remarks about tinfoil hats.

Meantime here's the latest spiral of the descent;
http://www.met.police.uk/campaigns/counter_terrorism/ct_camera_2008.pdf
When the police start asking you to report people for taking pictures, 
you *really* know we're in trouble.

-- 
Pete Mitchell