(henrymakow)
What sort of mind needs to know absolutely everything about complete strangers, and to what end?

Clinically diagnosed psychopaths, those classified as biologically incapable of remorse, empathy or conscience from birth, are responsible for human suffering throughout history.

Vladimir Lenin was quoted as saying: "Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever". Today, school children from the youngest age are indoctrinated by government mandate to accept surveillance and to see privacy as a thing of the past.

A gradual societal phase-in of biometrics systems through a steady diet of carefully crafted government, corporate and media exposure acclimatizes the public to a system which labels and monitors them like chattel property. If we don't own ourselves, who does?

International bankster J.P. Morgan once said: "A man always has two reasons for doing anything - a good reason and the real reason".

Would prevention of "identity theft" and promotion of "safety & security from terrorists" provide excuse enough for cataloging and tracking the human race biometrically?

Facial recognition can be used to instantaneously scan a sports stadium full of people and locate a specific individual in the crowd. How difficult would it be to scan a crowd of protesters so they could easily be rounded up by authorities from their home or workplace afterward?

If senior citizens were required to provide an iris and thumb scan in order to qualify for (or receive) their pensions, could they refuse? Likewise, with welfare recipients transfer payments. Would there be recourse? Would access to health care be denied?
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