WRITTEN ON July 25th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, What do we want?

I don’t get it (from Kablenet):

The Home Office has said that joining up existing government systems reduces the need for big new databases.

Well yes. But… but….but…. THEY”RE TWO WAYS OF DOING THE SAME THING. Do we rejoice if youths say the wide availablity of flick-knives reduces the need for them to carry kitchen knives?

It has made the claim in an official response to the Commons’ Home Affairs Select Committee’s report, A Surveillance Society?, stating the government has no ambition to build one. “The government does not recognise such a scenario

I’m gobsmacked. It’s like a tramp living in the middle of spaghetti junction saying he’s never heard of traffic.

and it is not an ambition that such a state should be in place,” it says.

Well phew. But do we believe them?

To me this response reads like doublespeak. Is it that I don’t get it? Do they just not get it? Or do they just not care, and lie cynically? *Sigh* The longer I do this stuff the more perplexed I am.

It feels a very distant prospect that the people who wrote this wholly incredible response and the people who read this blog might ever gather together, informed by the same evidence, and guided in harmony towards the same vision of what our “Ideal Government” destination is. I wish some expert in something could map out for me why they think and write so differently that I end up feeling they’re either deceptive or dimwits. Either way I feel they’re undeserving of their expensive pensions. And if that’s how I approach them they’re hardly going to engage constructively, are they? Especially when I have no role, no job, no medals and stuff, no official status or contract. What can I possibly bring other than trouble?

Somethimes this feels like stony ground. So where’s the Wibbi?

Wibbi the government DID recognise such a scenario and put more effort into genuine efforts to avoid it?