MM wrote:
On Thu, 19 May 2005 23:36:19 +0100, "Brian G"
wrote:

Mary Fisher wrote:
"Steve Walker" wrote in message
...
Grumps wrote:
The only people who might object to id cards are those who are
either illegal in this country or those who have something to
hide!!!!

I am neither, and I resent your offensive insinuations. I simply
wish to enjoy my traditional British birthright of privacy,

er-birthright?

The only birthright any person has is that of being breast fed.

er - British?

What do you think your birthright would have been before the union?

without being tracked, tagged and surveilled by an unaccountable
army of public and commercial 'security services'.

Oh come on!

Mary, you are tracked now, you cannot go onto a major motorway or
road without being 'logged' by cameras that can read your number
plate AND take a very good photo of the driver and front seat
passenger. And when they ultimately fit the 'little black box' into
your car under the guise of 'paying for the road you use' then they
will be able to track you on every journey right down to the time
that you got into the car and then got out again.

BTW, if you have a mobile phone, you can be tracked by GPS to within
a few metres - even with it turned off.

I propose to install cctv in your home, grumps. I'm going to wire
it to every room, so that we can watch you night and day. You will
only object to this if you are either illegal in this country or
have something to hide...

It wouldn't bother me. You'd get bored out of you paranoid mind
watching it. Can you imagine the result of your fears? Half the
population watching the other half 24/7?

That is exactly what will happen - you will be constantly looking
over your shoulder to see who is watching or following you.

Who watches the watchers? Not Blunkett.

There will be no need, a climate of fear will have been instilled
and the population will watch each other whilst the likes of
Blunkett and Clark can sleep safely in their beds surrounded by all
the trappings of the pampered.

The pampering has already begun. They've just given themselves a total
of 80 days hols in the summer. Nice job if you can get it!

MM


Ooooooh that was below the belt :-)

Brian G