[Gllug] London explosions

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:12:34PM +0100, Benedikt Heinen wrote:
> >>It might be rather early to ask this question, but:
> >>	how would identity cards have helped to stop these explosions ?
> >Easy: you'll need to swipe your card at turnstiles erected at the
> >entrance to every street in the country.
> 
> OK - and how would that help?

By the time that we have all paid for it - no one will have any money left
with which to buy bomb making kit[*]

[*] unless you work for one of the gov't favourite companies that install
the turnstiles, the cost, of course, would have over run considerably;
but quoting low is what got the contract in the first place.

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