Yes, the US government has a long history of abusing its Constitutional powers. That's why we must all hide all of our personal data from them as much as possible. Of course Google, Bing, Facebook and all those selfies we take are excepted. BWAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH morons!
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013, at 06:19 AM, Boudewijn Dijkstra wrote: > Op Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:01:13 +0200 schreef Scott McEachern > <sc...@blackstaff.ca>: > > On 10/08/13 16:41, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > > Back in the pre-WW2 days, Belgium (or was it the Netherlands? I > > forget.) kept detailed census and medical data on their citizens, > > including their religious affiliation. It was useful data for a > > friendly government, never to be abused. > > I don't know about Belgium, but certainly in the Netherlands local > authorities were required to keep resident registration, except at that > time not medical data. > > > Then WW2 happened, and Hitler's Nazis invaded. They found that data, > > especially the religion part, quite useful, and we all know how that > > turned out. > > The problem was not that the data existed, the problem was that there > wasn't a general preparedness to hide, evacuate or destroy it when > justified. > > > -- > (Remove the obvious prefix to reply privately.) > Gemaakt met Opera's e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/
