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Looming totalitarianism in westernised countries.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.This is Britain! Remember? The land where we muddle through? Where we queue for weeks in the rain to get a passport. Where checks on potential employees are so rigorous that they allow murderous p�dophiles to work with schoolgirls. Where old ladies lie on stretchers in hospital corridors. And so forth. Need I go on?
We are constantly being told that identity cards etc are reminiscent of the East German STASI or of Franco's Spain. Er...where are they now?
How many doom-sayers are aware that forensic engineers even now can reveal their whereabouts at any given time simply by checking mobile phones and their records? Text messages too - even if deleted - can be retrieved by these people months later. So, are the worriers all going to hurl their mobiles into the nearest river? That surely would be a logical first step if they don't want authority to be aware of their movements. (Actually, I wish they would...think of the peace in the pub and railway carriage!)
On the other hand, wouldn't it be wonderful if a national database of DNA existed, say? Instead of mounting massively-expensive manhunts, all the police might have to do would be stroll around and pick the baddie up. Nationwide appeals for bone-marrow donors would be a thing of the past...and a host of other good things would be vastly simplified. If you have nothing to hide, what have you got to fear?
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