Today is International “Making the world more convenient for totalitarian rule” day! Sebastian over at Snowflakes in Hell has a post on ATF systems upgrades here (link). Another reason not to be more like the Brits (link), but remember the exemption (in bold):
Senior social workers have given warning of the dangers posed by a new government register that will store the details of every child in England from next year.
They fear that the database, containing the address, medical and school details of all under-18s, could be used to harm the children whom it is intended to protect.
The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ACDS) has written to officials outlining its “significant” concerns about the new system, called ContactPoint, The Times has learnt. Confusion over who is responsible for vetting users and policing the system “may allow a situation where an abuser could be able to access ContactPoint for illegitimate purposes with limited fear of any repercussions”, Richard Stiff, the chairman of the ADCS Information Systems and Technology Policy Committee, said.
The security fears are fuelled further by the admission that information about the children of celebrities and politicians is likely to be excluded from the system.
When they finally wake up, they’ll be in shackles.
This was part of a GIN discussion this fine Monday morning, where I hold the belief that a lot of the bad ideas like this and ATF “upgrades” that are in the execution phase are a result of planning starting at least a few years ago, maybe as much as a decade.
It seems as though even an outwardly favorable appearance of the Bush administration can’t stop the BATFE’s attempts to destroy the Second Amendment. This is the problem- the mission of the ATF and the government should be to serve the populace.
In other words, I’m looking for the ATF to open the door for me at the gun shop and ask me if there was anything else they can do to make my use of the 2nd Amendment more efficient in the future.
Right now there are so many interest groups seeking to move government from its Constitutional duty to protect our way of life to controlling our way of life that it’s disturbing.