Lesser of many evils
The British government wants to take DNA samples from everyone accused of offenses as minor as littering, speeding, or not wearing a seatbelt. Not convicted, which would be bad enough, but merely accused.
Oh, and they want to keep the samples on record forever. (“Forever ever? Forever ever?” Yep.)
Since 1997, one new human action per day has been outlawed by the Labour government, for a total of about 3000 new offenses.
I get asked almost every day why I don’t want to live in the UK anymore. I love so much about the place (it still feels more like home to me than America does now - I did spend almost all of my adult life there), but to see what is being done to people there is both infuriating and heartbreaking. I could leave, so I did.
It’s not that I think the US is perfect - far from it - but that the problems here are ones to which I am more willing to live in close proximity. That, like most everything else in life, is always subject to change.
Filed under: Life
I would like to know where they keep finding these human actions. I think the Brits should make a concerted effort that if the government continues to do this, then they should all perform one outlawed human action a day (provided it don’t hurt nobody, clearly)
When every single area of human life is politicized and regulated, just about anything can be outlawed by the totalitarians in office.
NB I’ll be watching your blog closely, looks promising!