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| Britain To Ident All Non-Nationals |
| 2006-12-21 |
| The power to photograph and fingerprint all non-EU nationals, currently living in the United Kingdom, has been announced by home secretary, John Reid. So, non-EU nationals will have to have interesting, yet to be designed, British ID cards. It sounds a bit like Nazi Germany in the 1930s. They did not have the same technological data systems in Berlin in 1933. But, if they had, they would surely have made use of similar computer-style operations. According to The Guardian, the new 'ID card scheme' is in the interest of national security. Back in the old days, everything the government did, to protect the nation, was always in the 'interests of national security'. Has the philosophy all changed from pre-war to post-war? Not really. It is just a new-era format of defining if you are British or not British. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #2 Sounds good to me. But can't happen here. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-12-21 10:25 |
| #1 How about implanting a microexplosive à la Escape From New York? Drastically cuts down on visa over stayers. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-12-21 09:09 |