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Bambi goes mad…

...and - as those naughty Tories told us all those years ago - strips off the mask to reveal the face of Satan. According to today’s Daily Telegraph

Tony Blair called yesterday for the national DNA database to be expanded to include every citizen. He said there should be no limit on the development of the database because it was vital for catching serious criminals...During a tour of the Forensic Science Service headquarters in London, he dismissed concerns of opposition politicians, saying the public backed the database because it was “helping us track down murderers, rapists”...Downing Street said later that no thought had been given at this stage to requiring everyone to give a DNA sample, although they will have to give scans of their eye and fingerprints for a passport and eventually a national identity card. At this stage, the Prime Minister believed it was a “personal matter” whether people, including other Government ministers, should volunteer their DNA.

The Wibbi: Wouldn’t it be better if we won elections by promising to treat fellow citizens with courtesy and respect, instead of treating them all as suspect murderers and rapists? After all, there is ample technology available for treating te exceptions as exceptions. As TB’s good friend matey said something all those years ago about how if you do your stuff without love its just a clashing cymbal noise or something (Wikiquote isnt helping me out here). Anyway TB: where is the love?

Published by William Heath on 24/10/06 at 2:12pm

Comments

1. Tragic really. How much worse can it get?

   The Telegraph article is here.
   

   Reply by Jason Kitcat  on  10/24/06  at  5:33 pm

2. Better luck with a Google News hunt for “noisy symbols”, or “banging nongs”, perhaps. There are a few about. It’s hard to speak the truth with love, when your lying tongue is programmed to hiss “45 minutes, 45 minutes.”

   Reply by  on  10/24/06  at  10:38 pm

3. "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.” I Corinthians 13/1

   Being a vicar’s daughter has its uses…

   Reply by Terri  on  10/25/06  at  12:49 am

4. Thanks Terri - yes that’s the one.

   Thanks for the link Jason. I embedded it because of dreaded “Expression Engine long-link breaks IE layout” effect.

   Reply by  on  10/25/06  at  7:39 am

5. Sorry, must have meant banging gongs.

   Reply by  on  10/25/06  at  10:00 am

6. YOu all beat me to it. I prefer the modernised English of the NIV - ok, so not lovely ye olde texte, but darned easier for me to understand. THe next few verses also pretty pertinent (even solving social and economic exclusion needs right motives). I use http://www.biblegateway.com for searching for stuff.

   Thus: (1 Corinthians 13) 1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

   Reply by  on  10/25/06  at  5:34 pm

7. Or, as we might put it in contempory language: “Without empathy, ‘Transformational Government’ is nothing but a clunking great fist.”

   Reply by  on  12/05/06  at  6:58 am