ID card rollout begins

[David Hansen]

On 25 Sep 2008 at 13:47, Wendy M. Grossman wrote:

> And the younger generation is being prepared for this 
> with school library, cafeteria, and registration systems that use 
> biometrics. By the time they're 18, many of them will find being asked 
> to give one by the police more or less business as usual.

Indoctrination into extremely un-British ways of doing things is 
certainly an approach the Home Office loves. Catching them young, when 
people generally want to belong as they have yet to grow up enough to  
become independent, is a tactic for them. 

Another example are these compulsory "citizenship ceremonies", which 
are also extremely un-British. If someone wants to celebrate becoming a 
citizen that is fine, they can arrange it themselves. All very British. 
Forcing everyone, whether they want to or not, to attend and pay for 
one of these "ceremonies" is the sort of activity one would expect in 
an uncivilised country. IIRC, like "identity" cards, this is another 
banana republic idea from Mastermind Blunkett, someone who wouldn't 
understand Britishness if it bit him on his bottom.




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