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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <498fo0Fne384U2@individual.net>, humble.life   
    writes   
      
   >banana wrote:   
   >> 1) You can be absolutely certain - and I mean 100% certain - that the   
   >> fingerprint info taken from children at UK schools (including without   
   >> asking permission from parents) is being centrally gathered and retained   
   >> by the secret State.   
      
   >oh we had that when i was at school,   
   >   
   >the police liason officer came in (probably mid-80's) and took the   
   >classes fingerprints.  they took them away and then they sent them back   
   >to the school where we all got "gold stars" and a "house point".   
   >   
   >back then, no-one battered an eyelid.   
      
   Which country? I'd be interested to hear more.   
      
   I believe some opticians in the UK in the late 1990s were secretly   
   taking retinal info too. It's easy to get tinpot Nazis or 'professional'   
   money-grabbers to do their bit for 'security' and feel really cool when   
   they do so...   
      
   There was (is?) widespread secret 'IQ' testing in UK schools too...   
      
   A friend of mine did some covert investigation and was told by a school   
   secretary that goings-on with the whole 'Unique Pupil Number' (UPN)   
   system was (quote) 'very hush-hush'.   
      
   --   
   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)