Millions of British airline passengers face mandatory fingerprinting before being allowed to board flights when Heathrow’s Terminal 5 opens later this month.Cool--I can't wait for that here. Because it will help make us feel safe and stop terrorists! Plus it will condition us to accept even more terms and conditions, demands and requirements, hoops and intrusions,to help keep us free.
I have no doubt that if some egghead working for a "public/private partnership" contractor demonstrated that individual colo-rectal patterns provided positive identification, there'd be no shortage of passengers lining up for their probes so they could get on a bus and go to work to pay their taxes.
[Via MacEntyre]
In the 1960's I worked with a British Engineer. He was very angry about having to have his fingerprints taken for his security clearance. On the other hand he thought private, unregulated possession of guns was absolutely wrong.(Karate was his preference). He suddenly decided to abrogate his citizenship application and return to England when his children reached school age. Sam Wilson
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