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Originally posted by Trolleh???
It's another 1984 theme. I really don't know why I said it now - it just popped out.Comment
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Originally posted by wendigo100Spacecadet did. He's got family in Carlisle.How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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Originally posted by TrollNope... but a remarkable amount of English support for letting Scotland goComment
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Originally posted by Trolleh???We have cut the links between child
and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman.
No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer.
But in the future there will be no wives and no friends.
Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one
takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated.
Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a
ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are
at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty
towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of
Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of
triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no
literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no
more need of science. There will be no distinction between
beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment
of the process of life.Drivel is my specialityComment
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Originally posted by wendigo100Torran has described it about right.
It's another 1984 theme. I really don't know why I said it now - it just popped out.How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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If the CIA are reading this board (and why wouldn’t they?), please please please rendition Gordon Brown’s @rse to Camp X-Ray."My God, it's huge!!"Comment
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Originally posted by wendigo100Torran has described it about right.
It's another 1984 theme. I really don't know why I said it now - it just popped out.
You too Wendigo ?
I thought I had purged myself earlier this year of Eric Blair when I had about a month of threads last Jan including the Central Scrutiniser - for those who may recall but I cant help it - is there no escape from this darkness ?
You'll be shooting up on anything
Tomorrows never there
Beware the savage jaw
of 1984 ...Comment
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We have cut the links between child
and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman.
No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer.
But in the future there will be no wives and no friends.
Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one
takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated.
Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a
ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are
at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty
towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of
Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of
triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no
literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no
more need of science. There will be no distinction between
beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment
of the process of life.Comment
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Roads to Freedom 1984 and beyond
SUPER-COMPUTER
Tony Blair is expected to announce today that sensitive personal data could be swapped by Whitehall departments. Ministers believe restrictions on data-sharing between civil servants are too strict. A 'super-database' or 'super-computer' holding everyone's records would be similar to a planned children's database.
DNA DATABASE
The Prime Minister has suggested that the DNA of every British adult should be stored by the state. The national database already holds 3.7 million samples, 6 per cent of the population, far higher than any other country. More than one million have been taken from people never convicted of an offence.
CCTV
The British are among the world's most observed people. Some 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras record our every move - one for every 14 people and more per head than any other country in Europe or North America. The average Londoner can be caught on camera 300 times a day.
MEDICAL RECORDS
Millions of medical records are to be transferred to a central NHS database, allowing staff anywhere to access patients' information. People who object will not be able to opt out. The most personal information will be available to hospital managers, IT departments, high street pharmacists and civil servants.
IDENTITY CARDS
The first identity cards will be issued next year to foreign nationals and from 2009 to UK citizens. Anyone who renews a passport will be forced to register and the Government aims to make ID cards compulsory within six years. Fifty-two pieces of information, including fingerprints and iris scans, will be held.
SPY IN THE SKY
Motorists are already monitored through the soaring number of road cameras. In an effort to cut congestion, the Department of Transport is examining plans to use satellite technology to keep tabs on every vehicle's exact movements. Motorists, forced to have a black box fitted in their cars, would be billedfor every journey they make.
Growth of surveillance
1984: DNA fingerprinting method discoverd by accident by Sir Alec Jeffreys
1985: Outdoor CCTV camera erected in Bournemouth
1994: Government paves the way for huge expansion of CCTV
1995: The world's first National DNA Database established in England and Wales.
1999: Tony Blair gives a sample of his DNA
2001: Sir Alec Jeffreys calls for profiles of entire UK population to be held
2004: Number of DNA profiles hits the two million mark
2004: Information Commissonaire Richard Thomas warns that Britain is 'sleepwalking into a surveillance society'
2005: MPs vote to introduce identity cards
2006: National Black Police Assocation call for inquiry into why black people are over represented on DNA database
2006: Identity Cards Act becomes law
2007: Data-sharing by Whitehall departments likely to be introduced
2008: Foreign nationals will have to start supplying fingerprints, eye or facial scans added to a National Identity register
2008: Children's database, covering all under-16s in England and Wales, will be launched
2009: The first biometric identity cards will be issued to British citizens when they renew their passport
2010: NHS Database will store the records of 50 million patients providing details over the internet
2012?: ID cards compulsoryComment
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