Obnoxious Mods

I love the United Kingdom.  You can walk around London and see camera after camera watching your every move.  You really feel… whats’s the word? Guilty. Safe.  Originally a monarchy, London really knows how to be scared of her own citizens.  Instead of open dialog and discussion the UK has decided to use closed-ciruit television cameras (CCTV) to make their tiny, unimportant country feel safer.  The picture above shows just how safe they’ve made the area surrounding George Orwell’s former home.

Cameras aren’t enough, however.  To be truly safe you need a national ID and database system in place and checkpoints with barb wire and dogs and the Brit’s gov’t realizes this.  Those communists terrorists over at no2id.net disagree and have put up a leaked government document detailing plans on how London plans to sell the idea to the peasants.  I can’t wait until my country, the good ol’ US of A, will take England’s lead and get on the lockdown train.  Go Manchester United!

A mirror of the leaked 1.2 MB PDF document with annotations from no2id.net.  Don’t look at it or you’re a traitor.

… from Boing Boing