Children to be Fingerprinted

[Mitch]

observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1833407,00.html

Caught this article over the weekend - revealing secret plans for children over the age of 12 to be fingerprinted.

Connections are being made in this article with passports - previously I think children could just be listed on their parents passports upto the age of 16 years.

What is driving it is now rigorous US Visa entry requirements - the article alludes to this.

Honestly, does Shami Chakrabarti (director of Liberty) seriously think that this stored information won't be passed and shared with unscrupulous parties including multi-nationals and more. She is condoning secure passports (with all the biometric information etc.) but opposing ID cards - what she is failing to see is that the two are intimately connected, and that secure passports are the forerunner to the latter.

She can have this week's 'woodentop' award!

[michele cryer]

Hmm, very interesting all this 'shared' information.

You know, today the plods came to visit our friend Jules and when she mentioned that I had a nurse visiting me, the plods said, 'oh, so she's the one that's been in hospital recently?', how did they know that one of our group of friends had been hospitalised, eh? even tho it wasn't me? Very strange indeedy!

[Mitch]

Surveillance and control have increased on a local level - we have felt it have we not - with the police and councillors now regularly attending residents' groups meetings, and infiltrating every area of community support and work, their real agenda of control hidden behind a veneer of 'help in the community'.

spook

[michele cryer]

Yeah..seems to be the case Mitch...spook indeed!