I rolled out of bed into 1984
By Nic Conner
Is it just me or are we living in Orwell’s 1984? Jacqui Smith has taken time out from shopping with her taxpayer’s credit card to take our freedom away. I try to do this without sounding like Mel Gibson in Braveheart but ‘they will never take our freedom!’ Oh wait they have.
I’m talking about the silly ID cards and the DNA database. Firstly the ID cards. It is something which has been on the table for sometime now but we are about to see it come into play in Manchester first.
Let me remind you why we are going to have ID cards, it’s because of terrorists, well isn’t? Yesterday the government told us they are going to do this so they can be more proficient and have all our private and sensitive information in one card and of course to help younger looking student get into the pub, they added. So it not because of terrorists, this is Labour’s attempt to try to stream line their bureaucracy and roll in some of the red tap they made. I would think it would be easier and cheaper if they just scrap some of their bureaucratic targets and red tape. This would not just stop you being another number in society but also stop £200 in personnel tax cost (that’s just to set ID cards up). If you like to know please read Ed Hallam excellent piece yesterday to know more.
The DNA database is criminal. The government is going to find you guilty, even before you are proven to be guilty. Labour has all but torn up the Magna Carta but this is taking it to the next step. To hold you on a database as a suspect even before you have done anything wrong is not something which happens in a democracy. I know we have an unelected PM who take almost all of our money in tax and spends it on his lavish homes, but I like to think I am still in a British democracy.
Just look at the figures of the DNA match’s they are already falling from 21,098 in 2003 to 17,614 last year. In the same time, the number of profiles on the national database has more than doubled.
Not only will this new computer system fail and cost us £300 million (the good people at the TPA tell me) but it will also go against anything that a free society stands for and all things which our country stands for.
Chris Grayling said:
“The Government just doesn’t get this. People in Britain should be innocent until proven guilty.. Ministers are just trying to get away with as little as they possibly can, instead of taking real action to remove innocent people from the DNA database. It’s just not good enough.”
I agree it seems to me that both ID cards and the DNA database are there because of the failings and laziness of the Labour government. Maybe they think they cannot U turn from the silly ideas as they will just look even weaker. As I think this is the case that shows Brown and Labour are all about trying to hold on to power even if it means your freedom.
If you like to do more read Ed Hallam’s piece or go to no2id.net. Watch this Video to see why the DNA data base is not a good idea:
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