Too Much Security Makes Us All a Lot Less Secure
Spectator, The; London › August 21, 2009
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Yet still the government ploughs on with numbering, classifying and examining us at every turn. In a couple of years' time, for example, criminals and weirdos will also have access to the proposed £241 million children's index, which will carry details of the health, education and social service records of the country's 15 million children.
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Too Much Security Makes Us All a Lot Less Secure
Here is a little paradox. For 30 years during the Troubles you have been taking the Belfast to Stranraer ferry.
No one asked you for identification: you just bought your ticket and off you went, even though it is quite possible that among your fellow passengers on one of those journeys was a terrorist smuggling bomb-making equipment into mainland Bri...See the full content of this document
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