Last Straw

Kiwi Tom Chap­man writes for Pub­lic Address about the author­it­arian bur­eau­cracy that has been tak­ing root under New Labour’s watch in Britain.

The UK police, who have my DNA, have already sold DNA data to private com­pan­ies and, accord­ing to Jenny Wil­lott MP, this includes “sin­is­ter explor­a­tions into eth­nic profiling.”

I’ve pen­cilled in the advent of a National ID card and/or bio­met­ric pass­ports as points at which I might leave Bri­tain. I just don’t want to be a part of a soci­ety that has a cent­ral­ised infra­struc­ture whereby the gov­ern­ment or some numb­skull at the Post Office/Police can have access to all this inform­a­tion and use it against people they don’t like.

I don’t how many times I’ve heard the cliché “if you don’t have some­thing to hide you’ve got noth­ing to worry about” so in some ways a lot of people here deserve such a government.