"...the machine tended increasingly to dictate the purpose to be served, and to exclude other more intimate human needs." -- L. Mumford, "The Myth of the Machine"
I see another article for your site looming, having watched the ten o' clock news: releasing the figures Blair claimed so recently were unobtainable...it is SO obvious a ploy to soften up public opinion and win over the sceptics. Does he REALLY hold us all in such disdain? (Yes, that was a purely rhetorical question).
Thanks for the detective work! I am sure all your readers appreciate it. I do not believe for one second that once the scheme has been bulldozered through the government will fail to make carrying it on one's person at all times an obligation. After all in the countries on continental Europe with a compulsory ID card you must be able to produce it on demand (carry it with you at all times). Even this does nothing to deter illegal immigrants (there are amnesties here on a regular basis to legalize a proportion of them). Next it will be a barcode or an implanted chip...wait and see. It is the timing of the release of the figures that makes my blood boil as it is such a transparent tactic.
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I see another article for your site looming, having watched the ten o' clock news: releasing the figures Blair claimed so recently were unobtainable...it is SO obvious a ploy to soften up public opinion and win over the sceptics. Does he REALLY hold us all in such disdain? (Yes, that was a purely rhetorical question).
Oops, I was so worked up I didn't notice I had omitted to mention which figures: the numbers of illegal immigrants living and working in the UK.
Thanks for the detective work! I am sure all your readers appreciate it. I do not believe for one second that once the scheme has been bulldozered through the government will fail to make carrying it on one's person at all times an obligation. After all in the countries on continental Europe with a compulsory ID card you must be able to produce it on demand (carry it with you at all times). Even this does nothing to deter illegal immigrants (there are amnesties here on a regular basis to legalize a proportion of them). Next it will be a barcode or an implanted chip...wait and see. It is the timing of the release of the figures that makes my blood boil as it is such a transparent tactic.
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