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If Your Fingerprints Aren't Down You're Not Coming In

UK Government wants to control where citizens go to get drunk. Will
people start caring more about the liberty crushing surveillance society
now?

Steve Watson / Infowars.net | October 23rd 2006

The drinks are on Big Brother.

The British government has announced that it wishes to send nationwide a
previously localized program of mandatory fingerprint scanners at the
entrance of every pub and club in major UK cities. Under such rules If
you want to have a drink in the trendiest places in the UK you will have
to be fingerprinted.

As usual this is being sold as a way to reduce alcohol related crime and
weed out troublemakers. We're all suspects now, we're all possible
criminals and we all need to be scanned and catalogued in order to save
civilized society. The young hoodlums are taking over and we must all be
considered dangerous in order to stop them.

The move to introduce the scanners is being sold to club and bar owners
with the promise that they can stay open longer if they implement it. If
they refuse that nice little earner they will simply be shut down as new
licenses stipulate that a landlord who doesn't install fingerprint
security and fails to show a "considerable" reduction in alcohol-related
violence, will be put on report by the police and have their licenses
revoked.

What's more, reports detail the fact that all clubs and bars that have
this forced upon them, or choose to willingly use it, will be hooked up
to a centralized database in order to easily share the biometric
information. Access to this database will also be granted to the police
and the government.

We have previously been told that it is just a matter of time before the
fingerprint replaces cash and credit cards.



As a citizen of the UK I have not known a time when civil liberties have
been under attack from so many angles at the same time. In the name of
the war on crime, the war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on binge
drinking, the war on anything the government can't be bothered to
attempt to get to the real cause of, we have to relinquish our privacy.

Big Brother Is watching... And listening and shouting and scanning and
taking your fingerprints and swabbing your DNA. Lets take a snapshot of
a typical day in Britain should all these things be fully implemented.

You get up to go to work and walking down your residential street you
are picked up by multiple cameras within minutes of leaving your house.
Before you board the tube or the train you may have to relent to going
through the high-tech body screener for detecting would-be terrorists.
Place your hands above your head and wait for the machine to produce a
naked picture of you on a screen.

If your 're lucky enough not to have to go through one of these you will
certainly be picked up by the the face scanning cameras which are
programmed to sound an alarm when they spot suspicious behaviour, such
as waiting somewhere for a prolonged period of time or just walking in a
suspicious way.

Should you drop some litter or act out of turn the cameras may even
start shouting at you in order to publicly humiliate you and let
everyone else around you know what you've done. This way you might be
shamed into never stepping out of line in that way again.

You swipe your electronic travel card over the reader and a unit of
travel credit is deducted. This sends a signal to the central database
reporting your whereabouts. You could still use cash but the fare has
been raised so high for cash users that it seems ludicrous to opt for
that.

Those who are lucky enough to work out of the big cities or those who
drive to work will have their movements and personal behaviour monitored
by traffic cameras all over the country. They will also be tracked at
all times by the black box locator within their vehicles.

Once you get to work you are continuously monitored from the moment you
enter the building until you leave.

After work you may go for a drink. Once you have had your fingerprints
scanned to enter you may also have to undergo a DNA swab test for drug
use. If you refuse you are recorded as suspicious and may even be
arrested at which point your DNA will be forcibly taken anyway.

This will be added to the national DNA database which is also hooked up
to the central UK citizens database which eventually will contain the
DNA of everyone no matter whether or not they have committed a crime.
You will not have access to this information but the government will.
They may even sell the information to private companies should they wish
to. The Information will be stored on the database forever.

If you do manage to get in the pub for a drink you will be able to pay
for it much more quickly and easily if you have an implanted microchip.
Just wave your arm over a reader and it will pick up the chip's signal
and deduct a beverage credit accordingly. A chip may also eliminate the
need for an ID card, travel card, medical card and the like. No need to
carry cumbersome wallets or handbags anymore!

Perhaps you will not have worked hard enough this week to earn enough
beverage credits though. Oh well never mind time to go home. When you
get back remember to put out the trash. Make sure the bag is not too
heavy though or more refuse credits will be deducted from your
allowance. And don't forget to recycle or you could get some jail time.

Just before you turn in check your personalized cctv channel and report
any suspicious activity in your neighbourhood. You can then go to sleep
safe in the knowledge that you are 'secure beneath the watchful eyes' of
Big Brother.

In the UK we are the most observed population outside of North Korea.
Britain is the surveillance bench mark, the rest of the Western world is
a close second. As Henry Porter Commented in last week's London
Observer, It's time to wake up to what we have become and stop allowing
limits to be put on our liberty. It's now or never.

I think we should all have bar code tatoos on .