[Gllug] London explosions

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:41:22PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 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.

Errrm, I was going on what he said a couple of months ago when 'the ricin
man' was convicted. He said then that ID cards would have helped there.
Clarke will use whatever argument, no matter how tenuous, to advance his case.

> 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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