tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660187.post2494353982852382377..comments2023-10-18T13:20:16.450+04:00Comments on The Grumpy Goat: Good evening, Citizen. Crime Blitz!Grumpy Goathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07944514711900089561noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660187.post-2567403523971166232007-07-02T13:26:00.000+05:002007-07-02T13:26:00.000+05:00Hurray to the video surveillance security camera. ...Hurray to the <A HREF="http://www.video-surveillance-guide.com" REL="nofollow">video surveillance security camera</A>. If not for them, we'll all be scared. And yeah, if you're not guilty, there's no need to freak out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660187.post-10121808800831368102007-06-17T07:51:00.000+05:002007-06-17T07:51:00.000+05:00We've all done something wrong, at least by somebo...We've all done something wrong, at least by somebody's definition. I've been known to flash my ankles in public.<BR/><BR/>Found this item in today's Independent newspaper:<BR/><BR/> 'Schools are to get the go-ahead to fingerprint pupils as young as five, in new measures to be approved by the Government.<BR/><BR/>Ministers will issue guidance telling schools they have the right to collect biometric data and install fingerprint scanners.<BR/><BR/>But the decision has angered opposition MPs who say collecting fingerprints from children will be a gift to identity thieves.<BR/><BR/>The guidance will say that personal data, including fingerprints and eyeball scans, can be collected from pupils and used to monitor attendance, so long as schools consult parents first and do not share the data with outside bodies.<BR/><BR/>Schools will be able to place fingerprint scanners at the entrances to classrooms, the school gates and even in cafeterias.<BR/><BR/>Fingerprint and eyeball scans would make it easy for schools to track children during the day, and tell if they are playing truant, or even what they have eaten for lunch.'<BR/><BR/>Scary!<BR/><BR/>It seems to me people in the UK will now accept jut about any restrictions on their liberty!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660187.post-74900928669170394082007-06-08T15:02:00.000+05:002007-06-08T15:02:00.000+05:00You're hitting that nail squarely on the head, Mr....You're hitting that nail squarely on the head, Mr. Goat. If you are arreseted in the UK, they take swabs of your saliva for DNA. Even if you are found to be totally innocent, the police can and will keep your DNA on file.littlejimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07339011058529841043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660187.post-82028142324147190552007-06-08T12:58:00.000+05:002007-06-08T12:58:00.000+05:001984 and The Handmaids Tale (Atwood) are hands dow...1984 and The Handmaids Tale (Atwood) are hands down the two most terrifying books I’ve read. <BR/>By the way, this precautionary discrimination has been around for a while, just less in-your-face. At the US border during a school trip, I was pulled off a full school bus, interrogated for over an hour, fingerprinted, photographed and made to sign several crazy forms before being allowed to get back on the bus, <I>and this was in 1992</I>.trillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15492305709110432226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660187.post-15698445019414647862007-06-07T14:49:00.000+05:002007-06-07T14:49:00.000+05:00Of course, JD doesn't come from Spain. There are ...Of course, JD doesn't come from Spain. There are plenty of criminal goats here, you see them jaywalking in the road every day.El Casareño Ingléshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05562095204894019667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660187.post-90704884754293554322007-06-07T12:52:00.000+05:002007-06-07T12:52:00.000+05:00An afterthought;"Any society that would give up a ...An afterthought;<BR/><BR/>"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."<BR/><BR/>Benjamin FranklinGnomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00554527372940638254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660187.post-65486285884527462672007-06-07T12:47:00.000+05:002007-06-07T12:47:00.000+05:00At least where I live no one tries to pretend it's...At least where I live no one tries to pretend it's a free society.<BR/><BR/>Some of these law and order fanatics and espousers of the "if you've done nothing wrong you've nothing to fear" types should try living out here before diminishing the rights of ordinary folks in the supposedly free world.<BR/><BR/>some examples:<BR/><BR/>During prayer time a man is forced out of his car and beaten for not attending mosque and was about to be dragged off somewhere when production of his Iqama (state id papers for ex-pats) showed that he was not a Muslim and therefore that he wasn't actually allowed to go to the mosque. He was just waiting to go to the shop (which was closed for prayers in accordance with local law). The poor man had no recourse in law for this assault because he "looked like a Muslim" and that entirely justified the actions of the mutawain, the religious police. As a side note prayer times change every day and its easy to get it wrong by a few minutes.<BR/><BR/>A man has been deported for assault (and so has lost his home and livelihood) and would have been imprisoned had it not been for the intervention of his embassy for stopping an assault on his wife. Apparently some nutter in a scruffy thobe had run up started beating the man's wife with a stick. The angry husband stepped in, of course, took the stick off the assailant and threatened him with it (notice, didn't actually hit him, just threatened) whereupon the assailant fled. The assailant returned with uniformed police officers and had the man arrested. It turns out that the assailant was a mutawa, and that he had beaten the woman because her ankles were showing beneath her abaya.<BR/><BR/>Mmmm, so the innocent have nothing to fear from draconic laws? I think not.Gnomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00554527372940638254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660187.post-24090189180415610552007-06-07T03:39:00.000+05:002007-06-07T03:39:00.000+05:00You have committed the ghastly crime of having fac...You have committed the ghastly crime of having facial hair. As we all learned from Star Trek, this means you come from an evil mirror universe and are obviously guilty of something.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15666614319839873374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660187.post-90886892962288316022007-06-06T22:58:00.000+05:002007-06-06T22:58:00.000+05:00Ah, Citizen Goat. Judge Huey here. You are guilty ...Ah, Citizen Goat. Judge Huey here. You are guilty of the possession of caff and synthi caff, both of which are illegal. The Tech Judge is still analysing traces from your foodpaks to determine the existemce of sugar. You are also guilty of smoking outside The Smokatorium. You are guilty of slow driving. You are suspected of Jimping on several previous occasions: Barney is cross- checking files to establish the precise level of guilt. Photographic evidence exists of mutant features.<BR/><BR/>A cube is being prepared as we speak, expect a very long sentence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com