06-05-2009, 02:54 PM
David
I have no doubt whatever that an National ID database scheme will proceed one way or another whatever political party is nominally 'in control'. It is just too central to the requirements of an efficient Security/Surveillance State for it to be any other way. It may require a presentational rethink but its essential outlines will remain; viz the ability of the State and its appointed agents to: track your every movement; to facilitate automated entry into 'sensitive' buildings/areas and trigger an 'appropriate' response where non-ID authorised entry is attempted; to render your every financial transaction (other than cash/barter) subject to surveillance for 'patterns', 'irregularities' etc. etc. But of course, if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear, and BIG brother always has your best interests at heart eh?
Motor vehicle journeys can and are already monitored in a relatively rudimentary fashion; a simple RFID chip in the ID card (or in your backside??) and a suitable receiver on every existing CCTV camera - or every street corner come to that - will be the culmination of Orwell's 1984.
Funnily enough I've just finished re-reading it and I have to say it still makes some chilling and very telling points about just where we are headed.
I have no doubt whatever that an National ID database scheme will proceed one way or another whatever political party is nominally 'in control'. It is just too central to the requirements of an efficient Security/Surveillance State for it to be any other way. It may require a presentational rethink but its essential outlines will remain; viz the ability of the State and its appointed agents to: track your every movement; to facilitate automated entry into 'sensitive' buildings/areas and trigger an 'appropriate' response where non-ID authorised entry is attempted; to render your every financial transaction (other than cash/barter) subject to surveillance for 'patterns', 'irregularities' etc. etc. But of course, if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear, and BIG brother always has your best interests at heart eh?
Motor vehicle journeys can and are already monitored in a relatively rudimentary fashion; a simple RFID chip in the ID card (or in your backside??) and a suitable receiver on every existing CCTV camera - or every street corner come to that - will be the culmination of Orwell's 1984.
Funnily enough I've just finished re-reading it and I have to say it still makes some chilling and very telling points about just where we are headed.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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