England = Liberal America - They're doing it for the children

For years, conservatives have said that "If you want to see the future of America as a liberal state, look east to England." Evidence of that abounds. England has socialized rationed medicine, political correctness gone mad, 1/5 of the the surveillance cameras in Europe, a dis-armed, crime-ridden urban society where crime victims are arrested if they fight back, welfare for the masses, high taxes, un-appreciated military, and now this:

The British government wants to fingerprint every child in England. Oh, sorry parents, we didn't ask your permission? It would just bollux up everything if you don't cooperate. Those fingerprints held in school records will NEVER be misused or in danger of being hacked......

The sinister truth about what they do with our children's fingerprints

Fionna Elliot does not look like a firebrand. A hard-working mother, she has never had the time or the interest to dabble in politics.

Yet when the local primary school wrote to her saying they were about to fingerprint her son Alexander, eight, and daughter Jessica, only six, she was furious. The 29-year-old housewife from Balby in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, saw it as a dangerous step towards a Big Brother society. She didn't want her children fingerprinted and she marched off to Waverley School, five minutes from the family's home, to protest to the headmistress.
"The school said they were taking the thumb print of every child," Fiona explained at her neat, semi-detached home this week.
"The new electronic mapping system would allow children to borrow books from the library."
The headmistress said it would be exciting for the pupils and help them develop a love of books and reading.
Each child's fingerprint would replace their library card. Placing their fingerprint on a scanner would open their computer file with records of the books they had borrowed. The argument is that this would dramatically simplify record-keeping.

It has more than a fifth of the world's CCTV cameras. (Speed and crime cameras, anyone?)
One day all our NHS records may be on a national computer accessible by thousands of health workers. (This is being suggested in the US.)
Ministers have suggested that every British subject should have their DNA placed on a national database. (This has been suggested, also)
And already, the State has the DNA records of nearly a million children, some as young as five.
Now the Government is actively encouraging cash-strapped schools - short of teachers, sports facilities and even books - to spend £20,000 or more on fingerprinting systems.
In the short time since the practice began unannounced in 2001, nearly 6,000 pupils have had their 'dabs' taken throughout the country.
Every week another 20 schools join the list.

The parents say the fingerprinting is 'softening up' children to prepare them for the national introduction of ID cards and to encourage them to hand over precious biometric details without a second thought.

But those schools that have introduced the practice say there is nothing to worry about.
The data, unique to every pupil, will never be stolen or spied on, they argue.
This is simply a safe, easy and fun way for the children to take home library books or buy lunch at the school canteen. It does away with pieces of paper and dinner vouchers.
It saves time.

Why are they doing this? The supposed reason is convenience. The child logs onto computers and checks out books with a fingerprint. Never mind that the government now can track everything the eventual adult. Because if its so convenient for the children, just think how convinient it will be for them as adults. They'll be able to use their fingerprints to get money from a bank, enter buildings, buy things, get on planes, trains and automobiles......just for convenience.

Now, tell me that our government won't want to do this. Either party, as long as they believe in "big government."
Remember, they're doing it for the children.........