[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Nedusa

A very depressing view of one possible future Kirk, if we go down that road then why not really start to use all technologies at our disposal.

Lets have everybody in the Country go to a polling booth to vote at the next election and whilst there we can have you receive a bar code tattoo which contains all your relevant data. This then could act as a permanent ID card which would in fact speed things up at Airports etc.

All newborns can be microchipped so they can be monitored at all times, these chips can be designed to include ways to cause pain so people could be punished very quickly if they stepped out of line.

We could root out all illegal immigrants by stopping and bar scanning masses of people at random, the ones who were not legal could be taken away and put into internment camps and/or tortured then deported.

Terrorism now would be practically eliminated as the movements of everybody could be analysed and with ALL communications monitored the terrorist would have no real chance to even get into the Country let alone planning an attack.

We would have an obedient,compliant,quiet population of God fearing,hard working people but they would be but one step up from zombies, a sort of Stepford Population with practically no crime...

Nirvana, Shangri la....actually no that is NOT the sort of future I would ever want to live in.

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I'm sorry Nedusa, that we seem to be in agreement with a lot of things, but not on this.

Perhaps, I have done a great disservice to Cameron by posting my views, because I have deflected attention away from the real reasons why I posted - people's opposition to Cameron's proposals to impose certain duties on the owners of 'social media sites' regarding terrorist usage of those sites. Now, unfortunately, those people are 'off the hook'.

Coming back to your post Nedusa, you are extraordinarily stretching what I proposed into the most terrifying visions of a dystopian nightmare future without any valid reason for justifying such a leap of fancy.

I can't help but notice too, that your stance on terrorism and immigration seems to have swung from one extreme to the other, which is mystifying.

Anyway, though I respect your right to oppose my views, I stand firm, and would say that, there are two alternative visions of the future; the very improbable one detailed by T.S., yourself and Paul, which has little basis in fact based on my proposals, and the even more terrifying future of continued and escalated slaughter of innocents by terrorists, the continued and increasing attacks on our democratic way of life, or even the unthinkable ultimate nightmare - the UK controlled by Islamic Fundamentalists and its previously free citizens living under Sharia Law, or rather those who have not already been beheaded.