If You Give Me A Child…
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Social Un-Services, Technologies
I will be able to hold every mistake he ever makes over his head until he dies. (Sorry Jesuits, just revamping for the new order.)
When the UK’s DNA database plan for kids as young as five worked out so well, it seemed to embolden Her Majesty’s Government to really up the ante. Now from the Jolly Old comes this fresh hell.
So the UK is going to register every single child in Great Britain, approx 11 million under 18 that is, in one gigantic database that will list their home addresses, doctors, schools, parents or guardians, whether they have ever visited a drug counselor, ever been arrested, etc. That is, unless the kid happens to belong to a celeb or an MP…for security ya know.
Because of fears that certain children, including those of MPs and celebrities as well as abuse victims, will be at particular risk, a “shield function” has been created within ContactPoint to hide their addresses.
What utter horseshit. The 25 million records that were “lost” by Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs office last year received no such special treatment. Oh, and it gets better. Already:
Only this week a report warned that teenagers were being dragged into the criminal justice system rather than being given an old-fashioned “ticking-off”, while it has also been disclosed that the DNA profiles of almost 40,000 innocent children are now being kept on the national database.
So not only are kids being databased via DNA, they are being added to the CRIMINAL data bases as well.
The best part about this whole damn, the thing that makes me quake in my Keds, is that these programs, just like the CCTV’s all over the damn island, were supposed to help with specific problems. It took some kind of special bureaucratic panache to expand these programs into obtrusive, omnipresent programs that are literally stealing a generation from their parents. Except, you know, unless the elite don’t want it to touch them. And isn’t this what it is really about: controlling the proles?
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August 27th, 2008
” Except, you know, unless the elite don’t want it to touch them. ”
That’s exactly what happens in former Britain (or ‘The Dead Island’ as Lawrence Auster calls it).
Here’s a post I put up on my (I share it) local blog a few days ago:
http://wiganbnp.blogspot.com/2008/08/interesting-encounter-in-wigan-town.html
Ignore the comments – from that commenter everyone else does.
As a nice little PS:
My Member of Parliament lives about 40 yards away from me. He and the council (Labour both) have been encouraging enrichers to be housed here in this town, and in particular, in this council ward I and the MP live in. This ward is now thoroughly enriched.
The MP is moving out.
Enrichment is good for the British peasantry, you see. But not, of course, for the elites … they have their own little genteel unenriched very expensive enclaves.
All I can say is that electoral support for my kind of people (I’m actually the Election Agent and treasurer for my party in this town) is increasing by leaps and bounds. Ten years ago nobody in this town (and this ward) voted for people like me – it was rock-solid Labour party (a former coal mining town). Now we average 15% wherever we put up candidates for election. Well who would have thunk it! The Labour party certainly didn’t, obviously.
Then take another town like Stoke-on-Trent: it has 60 councillors. Ten years ago every single one of them was Labour party. Today? The Labour party now only has 15 of them; the rest are divvied up between the other parties and Independents. My party has nine of them, and a former Labour Mayor there has publicly said that he expects my party to control the town within 5-10 years.
Things are starting to move in this country. People are tired of being enriched and want it to stop, and indeed be reversed; they are tired of politicians who make rules for little people, but set in place arrangements to exempt themselves from those rules; they are tired of having their lives micro-managed; tired of … oh hell – tired of everything, frankly.
Have you read of the latest announcement from the British Home Office? Here it is – I can’t imagine it would stand in America, and frankly, I can’t wait for the first little Hitler that tries to give me a hard time:
http://thejournal.parker-joseph.co.uk/blog/_archives/2008/8/27/3857380.html
It can do no other than add to the above list of ‘tired of’ items. Nobody quite knows what little thing it’ll be that’ll tip the British people over. But everyone knows the pitchforks are already being sharpened …well, everyone except those elites living inside their own hermetically sealed bubble.
August 27th, 2008
Hm. 1984-ish, definitely. Probably more insidious because it’s not outright evil, just stupid and myopic. I think I’d prefer evil.