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Story: Pilots ready to seek legal action over ID cards

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Posted by: razer (Thursday 16 October 2008, 1:40 AM)

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There is difference

The difference is between people is laying on presumption of innocence. "Native" citizen have not to prove that he's legal to the authorities, but visitor has to. It is where police state start. ID cards, biometric databases, rfid based personal cards, chip implants (there are precedents now), "patriot act"-like legislatives - we're on the edge of new era of loss of privacy, personal freedoms and presumption of innocence by default. You're considered guilty unless you have ID that proves opposite.

"The loss of privacy started at the convenience". (C)....

It's always started from "the special categories" - now it's immigrants and aircrew. Who's going to be next? Tube crew? Teachers dealing with children? Doctors that have access to drugs? Everything could have very well arguments - drugs is the one of the worlds biggest problem and who want his children have to ability "to talk to strangers" in the schools?

Ask yourself whether you paying taxes to the government to protect you or to control you "for you own protection"? Because at the first they are servants for the people, and at the second they are jailers of the people.

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