Seriously? I know so many people in the UK, it's the grand "Nanny
State". At least my wife can go to another hospital to work, but in the
UK, most of their stuff is country wide. If you guys had your guns, it
probably wouldn't be that way. :-P
Dorothy Fitzpatrick wrote:
Golly, I'm glad its not like that here! I thought it was the land of the free?
dee
On 26 Apr 2010, at 21:52, bodhisattva wrote:
I've been telling people for years not to use shopper cards, discount cards, or clubs at
stores. Last year my sister got coupons tailored to exactly what she purchased, but
didn't ever fill anything out. Rude awakening, they scanned her purchase history. In
addition, the CDC "Sort of" let out that they used these shopper/check cards to
track down people that purchased potentially tainted meat. So we KNOW govt has access to
this data, when they want it. So if I purchase Hummus, am I a terrorist? Surprising, it
has been alluded that they want RFID listed under the patriot act to force people to
accept this, and the tracking it involves. (with legal mandate)
A good friend of mine was put on a "Watch List" for purchasing a book off Amazon called "Crossing the
Rubicon". He wasn't too happy about that situation. My mother was in a library in a rural county checking out a book
called "American Prophet", a red screen came up when the clerk scanned it. The clerk called another clerk and said
"You have to call that number". They did, and had to give the person on the other end my mothers personal information,
and then a "Code" that would allow them to move past that screen. For the next week my mother said she got strange
calls trying to ask her survey questions about this or that, and said her number is unlisted, and nobody but family tends to know
it.
