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The sub-heading of the article in today’s Daily Express, read:
Labour’s technology secretary, Liz Kendall, was skewered by BBC viewers after considering a new idea to tackle illegal immigration
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..she revealed that the government are considering other ways to stop illegal immigration, including the introduction of digital ID.
Stop illegal immigration? ..get access to all our personal data more like.. and let’s not forget about data breaches, personal information being uploaded to the dark web, profiting off of selling our information to corporations and other governments, and more besides.
There is a lot more. And it ramped up during the pandemic, promising a more authentic (impossible to counterfeit) vaccine passport, and presenting it as not only for immigrants, but for school age children (vaccine records).
I may be a lot of things that people generally detest, a supporter of global government or anything that pulls the world towards that general direction I am not.
I support individual independent nation states working together internationally without a wider single organization model trying to take over everyone. Nationalism worldwide.
Ah. That reminds me of something. This is a partial response to a couple podcasts from The Partially Examined Life.
It isn’t imposed freedom— and interference isn’t imposing against self-determination— when the state subject to regime change is governing instead of the people (in other words, in a very nonrepresentative, nonconsensual way) rather than recognizing the self-determination of every person.
Removing the obstacles to freedom (self-determination) by removing the regime (persons) that block instead of recognize informed consent (which is very self-destructive, isn’t it??)—is not itself an intervention against self-determination.
If possible… if they are not incorrigible… They have to be shown how it works in a way that doesn’t …oppress the oppressor (again: self-destructive… and not just on pain of rationality).
..exactly.. because there’s no money in it for them, otherwise. Dipping their greedy global hands in our global pockets, to fund their whimsical initiatives around the world and impoverishing us in the process.