Tagging the Elderly

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"Don't worry! It's only old folk. They're not going to do it to everyone."

...Yet. Once the technology and infrastructure is in place, expanding it to everyone else is much easier.

"It's a good thing, cos you'll never lose your Grandad again if he gets confused and forgetful when he goes down the shops."

Well there's a good cure for headlice I've invented that's guarenteed: Cut off you head! :eek: :) All these measures have advantages, but do you really think the price is worth it? What good does it do Grandad if keeping him from getting lost means his grandchildren have to grow up in an Orwellian globalist state?People are right behind the idea of tagging probationers. It keeps us safe you see! So the govt has had a great opportunity to develop and introduce the necessary technology and infrastructure, award manufacuring contracts, train personnel etc. And the tagging of schoolchildren is an issue very close to my heart at the moment! I've got nits, where's that guilllotine?

Most foreign nationals living in Britain will have to carry a card, and the government has said it wants the cards to eventually become compulsory in order to fight terrorism and identity fraud. Source:http://www.workpermit.com/news/2007_04_14/uk/biometric_id_card_progress.htm

"First they came for the Asylum-seekers..." is what Pastor Neimoller would write if he lived in Britain today. You just listen to people slaging off asylum-seekers! It's a really acceptable endemic hatred, spread by sensationalistic tabloid newspapers.

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Amazing! First pets then criminals and now old folk. Just goes to show, the young think their going to stay that way for ever. I am sure, all the people saying this is great, have not given a second thought to the fact, that one day they will be old too. Not even questioning, if they would want to be tagged themselves. (be compulsory by then though, for all) As a culture we have become so obsessed with youth, that the elderly seem a different species.

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Amazing! First pets then criminals and now old folk. Just goes to show, the young think their going to stay that way for ever. I am sure, all the people saying this is great, have not given a second thought to the fact, that one day they will be old too. Not even questioning, if they would want to be tagged themselves. (be compulsory by then though, for all) As a culture we have become so obsessed with youth, that the elderly seem a different species.


Yeah, there's a kind of distasteful "useless eaters" attitude at work here. As you say, one day we'll all be old so when we hurt the elderly and consider them worthless, we hurt ourselves.

Old people are actually very valueable. In prehistoric times, how many tribes were saved from starvation by knowlege and wisdom that the elders possossed. Imagine that the mamoths never showed up on their usual migration routes so the people were scared of famine. Then old Grandpa Ug comes forward and relates that his own grandfather told him of a time in his youth when the mamoth hunt failed and what the people did to survive until they returned the following year.