[Gllug] London explosions

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 12:34 +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> 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?
> 
> I don't know why I need to spell it out to you liberals.  It's
> obvious: everyone who's name is Mohammed or Abdul or who has admitted
> they're not a Christian on any census form in the last 100 years will
> have their access to the barriers denied.
> 
Really, it is all a bit much for the lot of you to accuse Charles Clarke
of being a bigot when you've just sat down at a keyboard and typed in
the first rubbish that came into your head.

If you want to oppose ID cards, fair enough. But to use these events to
build your case when you have absolutely no knowledge of who did this
and why suggests that you don't really like facts to get in the way of
any of your arguments.

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