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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <43faf950$1_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>, Anti-Pc   
    writes   
      
   >Crowley wrote:   
   >> Poldie wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >> I propose that as the technology improves, the police will be able to   
   >> scan a crowd and (assuming everyone is carrying his   
   >> voluntary-compulsory   
   >> ID card) produce a list of whom it contains. I further propose that it   
   >> will take only a year or two for this to seem reasonable......"   
      
   >We are halfway down a slippery slope and gathering momentum. 99% of the   
   >population have their hands over their eyes and can be heard muttering   
   >'well I have nothing to hide so i'll be okay'.... meanwhile that big oak   
   >tree is getting bigger and bigger...   
   >   
   >The other 1% of the population will eventually be rounded up under the   
   >'failure to produce an ID card' legislation 2012 and sumarrily shot.   
      
   2012? Do you think it will take as long as 6 years for the carrying of   
   ID cards to become compulsory??   
      
   Six years ago, back in 2000, most people didn't even know that mobile   
   phones functioned as locators. Now, most people don't give a toss.   
      
   Interested people could usefully discuss what sort of propaganda   
   campaigns will be used to 'sell' compulsory mass microchipping.   
      
   Stories about how ID cards are 'inefficient' and 'subject to forgery'   
   will doubtless play a role. Always be very sceptical when opinion-former   
   so-called 'opponents' offer 'criticisms' such as these.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)