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Today it's ID cards! Fun!
"Blunkett scares the crap out of me."
More to the point, he's literally the only person in the UK who thinks ID cards are a good thing and yet still they're being pushed through.
Dun Dun Dun Duuuuuuuun!
Ah yes, a pet-peeve of mine. People who say 'Literally' with no evidence to back them up. What's worse is when the evidence shows not only that they're wrong (I think I can count me as one person) but they they're spectacularly wrong (current polls show a majority of 80% in favour of ID cards).
Next!
It's pure myth that ID cards are effective tools against illegal immigration and terrorism.
I grew up in Hong Kong. ID CARDS ARE EFFECTIVE TOOLS AGAINS IMMIGRATION BLOCKHEAD! Hong Kong had the biggest Immigration Problem in modern history (On one side a thriving capitalist city, on the other a deadbeat communist hellhole - you choose!) and we solved it using ID cards as a primary tool. Now STFU and go do some research before you talk a bunch of crap.
Today, NI number and basic details.
Next decade, criminal convictions get added.
Next decade, genetic abnormalities get added.
Next decade, political stance gets added (gotta get those anti-terrorism measures in there somewhere).
Paranoid? Maybe. Look back to what happened Germany in the 1930s and we should be very, very concerned about how this kind of "information" could be abused.
Aaaaaaaaaaaugh!!
The slippery slope has you now! I don't even think I need to note the utter fallacy of the 'Slipper Slope' argument, suffice to say I shan't be opposing any bills on increased sentences for Terrorists because I fear we'll suddenly be executing people for shoplifting.
What's worse is that in the last sentence he singlehandedly destroys his entire argument without realizing it. There's a very good reason why bad things happened re: ID schemes in Germany in the 1930s - they were under the control of the 3rd Reich. If at any point we decide Fascism is the way forward I'll be more inclined to protest the introduction of ID cards.
The next selection is all from one post, which got modded +3 Interesting.
A fair amount of debate yes: and all of it indicates a) it will be very expensive and b) we don't want it.
See first fisked comment in this post.
But Herr Blair and his propaganda minister Josef Blunkett (aka the blind facist) have decided that that is what we must have, and have it we will.
Oh dear. Someone's been reading too much Socialist Workers Weekly. Ah, truly I forgot Mr Blair ran under the auspices Nazi Party and that Mr Blunkette, a working class man and life long labour party member, is quite patently fascistic.
I think we Brits are getting to the point where we're as desperate to get rid of our right wing Prime Minister as you are to get rid of your right wing President.
Oddly enough this sentence actually makes sense. Because the opinion polls on both sides of the Atlantic show the populus are behind the current administrations. One other lesson from the Big Book of Socialism has evidently been well learned - anyone who's less left wing than you must be a right winger.
The ironic thing is that Blair is the leader of the Labour party: which was historically established to protect the rights of the working class (ie Socialist, left wing). Blair however seems to see his mission to kiss the arse of Corporate Britain and fuck the workers because if they disagree they're probably don't understand what he's saying.
I like many, joined the Labour party on the sole grounds of Mr Blair's "Workers Fucking" policy.
The scarey(sic) thing is a comment by Roy Hattersley (a leading old-school labour politician) that Tony Blair has a second rate mind: ie he's as thick as pig-shit. yet another thing he has in common with Bush it seems.
Ah yes. A trained and qualified Barrister - clearly a total thicko. If only he had your mental dexterity 'CountBrass'. If only.
Both Bush and Blair strike me as shining examples of why Universal Suffrage doesn't work. Personally I think you should have to pass an exam before you can vote. Only simple stuff like: "Who are the leaders of the 3 main parties?", "Who is the Constituional head of state?". Let's face it, if you can't answer questions like that a) you're not well enough informed to vote and b) you don't fucking deserve to be able to vote.
Allow me to paraphrase his work in relation to this last paragraph:
"STOP STOMPING ON THE PROLETARIAT MASSES!...... THE PROLETARIAT MASSES SHOULDN'T BE VOTING!" - Sounds like a member of the Politburo if you ask me :)
Ah the joys of Slashdot. Call someone a Nazi - Get Modded +3 Interesting/Insightful.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at April 25, 2004 08:34 PM