First the US insisted on fingerprinting visitors, now they want to issue RFID cards to visitors so they can be scanned more easily. Of course the logicel next step is to track them around the US by scanning at transport hubs, or walking the streets etc.

It shouldn’t be too long before Australia tries this shit too. Since London we’ve already had plans to introduce a national ID card, plans to introduce random searching of people’s bags in public, and plans to make the ‘special powers’ awarded to the police post-911 permanent. If it all slots into place, and with the Liberals (hah!) having a majority in both houses of parliament it’s almost a certainty, we’ll be well on our way to a police state.

So the official line is that we shouldn’t change our daily behaviour because that would be ‘giving in to the terrorists’ but it’s OK to gradually have all sorts of common freedoms and rights sacrificed in the name of security? Sounds like ‘giving in to the terrorists’ to me.