If you happen to listen to your MP in the next week?
The story below just got bumped out by the sequel. The document to the right and the links to and from the originating story have vaporised into cyberspace. Broken links and removed source material ... wonder who got the wind up about this? and who got the job of rewriting the May Caucus document? Just in case the Con cyberpolice start tracking the doc down in the middle of the night I have stashed it and can pull it out any time to check against Mr Norlock's delivery at will.If you happen to listen to your MP in the next week just check the speech against this - an eight page speaking note for delivery by the Cons in power when they get back in the Ridings. Boy things must be getting back if this kind of caucus document is being leaked.
Maybe we should consider ourselves lucky with this proposal: a plan to fingerprint people who haven't been charged and then make them request the removal of prints from the system, instead of automatically being deleted after a period of time. In the UK ID cards are coming and with the arrival are some pretty big offences against civil rights: everybody will be fingerprinted to get one, all ID cards when used will be linked to the tax database and ID cards will be used to track financial transactions. Horrifying to a civil libertarian.
3 comments:
My favourite science fiction author, Robert Heinlein, wrote many years ago that when a society gets to the point where everyone is required to carry I.D. around with them at all times, it is time to emigrate to a new planet!
I may be overly cynical, but I suspect that CSIS and the RCMP can already find out anything they want about any of us, whenever the mood strikes them. They don't need these fancy new cards to do it either.
Secret Agent #49
Liberty of the individual and confidentiality with respect to individual actions are less connected than they are thought to be.
It would be a net benefit to the common good if, for example, personal income tax returns were public rather than private matters. Then we'd know who was funding Wally Keeler's efforts to destabilize The Burd Report by clogging it with endless, irrelevant tirades about free speech.
I can only conclude Mr. Keeler hasn't seen Mr. Hayes' entry yet or we would have been treated to a pithy response.
Wally, where are you? Get off your bike, forget the burgers, and get to work. We are all waiting...
DJO
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