The more I hear, the more confident I am that ID cards will be the solution to identifying terrorists. Unless they are British, of course. Or smiling. Or bald, or brown eyed.
And we should stop worrying about all this anti-terrorist legislation, too. It's only being used against perpetrators of the most horrendous crimes at the moment, such as, uh, hecklers and pedestrians. Who can object to that? I'm hoping that they extend anti-terror legislation to cover people who eat noisy snacks in the theatre, or wear backpacks on the underground.
Update: Oh yes, and those photographers, too.
Posted to The Big Room by Simon Brunning at October 18, 2005 01:28 PMOh my god - you would think the people in power in this country have read 1984, and *liked what they saw*, and watched Starship Troopers, and thought *that looks like a great way to run a society*.
Get out now, while you still can - before they take our passports away, and replace them with RFID tags under the skin, and we have to have visas and permission slips to move around our own damn country.
...oh, does that sound a bit paranoid? Next Tony Blair will have suggested that Guilty- Until- Proven- Innocent is the wrong way round and may have to be reconsidered under the "current situation"... oh wait... he did last week...
Posted by: Mark Matthews on October 19, 2005 09:46 AMTuesday night's vote on ID cards. Labour rebels, solid opposition from the Tories and Lib-dems. Labour majority reduced to 25.
Oh what's this? 41 (41!, jezuz ferkin xmas!) Tories didn't vote including all 4 leadership candidates.
What is the point...
Yet another opportunity to inflict a severe drubbing to Labour and the Tories are so self absorbed they didn't even notice.
Posted by: Julian Bond on October 20, 2005 07:17 PM